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Government officials aren’t allowed to come to your house and tell you what you can post on social media, but what about when those same officials put pressure on social media companies to tell them what you can post? That’s called “jawboning,” and it’s concerning for anyone who cares about a flourishing free speech environment on…
It’s been an ugly week in the U.K., as riots have led to illegal acts including looting, arson, violence, and threats. But like so many governments facing crises, officials are reaching the wrong conclusions about how to address the unrest. The rioting traces back to July 29, when three children were tragically murdered in a knife…
FIRE is excited to announce that longtime nonprofit leader and board member of NPR/PBS affiliate WABE Atlanta, Chuck Taylor, joined FIRE’s Advisory Council, where he will help guide our organization as we defend the civil liberties of all Americans. Currently CEO of the Atlanta-based real estate firm HT Group, Chuck comes to FIRE with more than…
In time all things pass or change. The question is, how long and how much? New times bring new adversaries, or new ways of looking at life and law. Or sometimes it’s just a reconfiguration of reality that upsets the proverbial applecart. Enter New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 First Amendment opinion. Within…
This year’s Olympic games in Paris kicked off with controversy. On the very first day, the opening ceremonies featured a scene composed of drag queens sitting at a long table overlooking the Seine River. In the middle of that table, laying on a platter of flowers and fruits, was a man painted blue and almost entirely…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee would lay off 32 tenured faculty members under a plan to close a general studies college created to support two-year degrees at satellite campuses. UWM Chancellor Mark Mone on Monday recommended…
At the University of Missouri, Canlas took a multifaceted approach to evaluating hardware overhaul needs. “Our first and largest effort was to get a lay of the land,” he says. “We actually sent our networking team and some of our student employees out with scanning hardware in a backpack. For all of our 150 buildings,…
Imagine you’re a journalist and you receive an anonymous email claiming to have attached internal documents of a presidential campaign. You open the attachments to find confidential communications showing the campaign’s inner workings. You publish the documents because you figure doing so is in the public interest. But then campaign officials claim the documents were…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Minouche Shafik resigned as president of Columbia University Wednesday following months of calls for her departure from both pro-Palestinian protesters and their critics. Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia’s dean of health sciences and CEO of the…
Writing about the “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” movement against Israel nearly a decade ago, FIRE President Greg Lukianoff argued that academic boycotts of a nation’s institutions or scholars cannot be reconciled with academic freedom: Academic freedom is a vast and majestic idea that relies on open communication across lines of difference in a global system of…