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Many of the free speech fights today rest on the question: How do we protect kids online? But some of the battles over what can be said or shared on the internet are about protecting a remarkably less vulnerable — and signific...
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As First Amendment lawyers, we get asked that quite a bit, sometimes about our clients. The answer is not too hard to figure out. People want to be heard, and social media platforms give them a megaphone....
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer readies a drone, August 2024. Credit: FWC / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Jim Watt had become a familiar face at Florida wildlife meetings. A retired turtle farmer, he was of...
A theatrical droll from the 1662 frontispiece to The Wits, or Sport upon Sport, attributed to Francis Kirkman. (Wikimedia Commons / public domain)
Welcome to FIREside, Expression’s weekend companion to the FIREwire. Here you’ll find the pr...
Under FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, pictured above, the agency’s COINTELPRO program surveilled civil rights groups, including churches where Martin Luther King Jr. organized and preached. Photo by AP/U.S. government.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression A nonpartisan non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the mission of protecting freedom of speech in the United States.
Sarah is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech
Head of news at FIRE, editor-in-chief of Expression, author of The Radicalist, analyst at Washington Policy Center. Former Asia correspondent, war correspondent, financial editor, and professor of logic. Fired from Seattle Times for attacking Lenin.
Co-founder and co-editor of the Penn Heretic. All views expressed are my own.
Legal Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) – Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar – Opinions my own
Editor-in-chief of the Eternally Radical Idea; Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Chief Research Advisor, FIRE
Operations and Strategy Lead, Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) (opinions my own)
Government Affairs Counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). https://www.thefire.org/about-us/our-team/michael-hurley
VP of Comms at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Program Manager and Counsel for FIRE's Student Press Freedom Initiative. I write about student press rights and a smorgasbord of other stuff. Opinions are my own.
staffer @theFIREorg | Happy 1A warrior! All opinions are my own.
Isabelle Brito is FIRE’s Off-Campus Mobilization Program Officer, where she works to empower individuals across the country to protect and defend free speech from small-town city halls to Congress.
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