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> any foreign order censoring EFF would be unenforceable in the United States under the First Amendment and the Securing the Protection of Our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act (SPEECH Act).

This way of naming laws is incredibly childish.

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on its face it's pretty stupid: acronyms that are so contrived (or worse, misleading) that you have to shake your head when you hear them.

but there is at least a little bit of value to having a brief, specific name to use when referring to it that somehow relates to the topic at hand.

Speak for yourself, I like it. I mean, the whole reason the SPEECH Act exists is to be a “fuck you” to countries like the UK with plaintiff-friendly libel laws trying to get those judgements enforced in the US, so the immature name is kind of fitting.

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