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A Nashville judge held that the journal entries of school shooter Audrey Hale, who went by Aiden, can’t be released under state open records law because to do so would violate copyright law. If you’re confused, that’s probably because you understand copyright law, open records law, or both. In the United States, copyright is an…
Never before has Congress taken the extraordinary step of effectively banning a communications platform, let alone one used by half the country. But this spring, Congress did exactly that when it passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law not only threatens TikTok’s U.S. operation but also exposes other online platforms to burdensome…
The Senate is gearing up to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act as early as tomorrow. FIRE urges opposition to both the Senate (S. 1409) and House (H.R. 7891) versions of the bill because they treat Americans’ speech not as a fundamental right and an indispensable ingredient of human progress, but as a hazardous product. This…
“Shoot, if they go for him again, I hope they get him.” No, that’s not a tweet about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. They’re the words of Ardith McPherson, a Texas police department clerk who made the remark more than 40 years ago after a failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan….
Victor Thorne is a rising junior at Grinnell College and a FIRE Summer Intern. In recent years, the transgender community has gained a reputation for championing cancel culture. Unfortunately, this is largely true. In FIRE’s 2024 College Free Speech Rankings, a sample of 454 students who identified as nonbinary overwhelmingly reported support for illiberal protest tactics. (The survey…
At this year’s BET Awards, when Usher went up to accept his lifetime achievement award, he announced, “Sorry, I’m gonna curse and let you know how I really feel.” As the R&B artist famous for singing, “Just when I thought I said all I could say,” launched into his 13-minute speech, audiences watching at home on television…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 19, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! A new academic year is about to begin, and, well, there’s this course—maybe more than one—that you’re not exactly bristling with excitement to teach. What should you do?…
Last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court gave the green light for the state to carry out executions using the electric chair, the firing squad, or lethal injection. But it did not gild the lily about any of them Justice John Few, writing for a majority of the five-member court, put it this way. “The…
Ahead of what could be another tumultuous year for free expression on college campuses, forthcoming FIRE/College Pulse survey data shows just a fraction of undergrads have a solid understanding of their own campus’s protest policies. Conducted near the end of the Israeli-Palestinian campus protests, between May 17 and June 25, 2024, the survey sampled 3,803 undergraduates at 30 four-year…