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FIRE’s Students Under Fire database tracks publicly known attempts since 2020 to investigate, censor, or punish students for expression protected by the First Amendment, or that would be protected at a public institution. Each entry records...
The front line of combating self-censorship is the classroom
Caroline Cunningham is a rising junior at the University of Alabama, where she is majoring in legal history on the pre-law track.
A formidable enemy of free speech on college campuses is self-censorship. Much has been said about how...
How does the First Amendment apply to ‘deepfakes’?
This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.
If you follow politics, you’ve probably seen an ad made with AI — and if you live in an area with a contested midterm race, you’ve probably seen several.
The Republican primary...
UK police review politician’s repost of guillotine art on a T-shirt
Reform UK reported Zack Polanski to police after he shared a photograph on social media of a man in a T-shirt featuring this illustration and the message, “We’re only making plans for Nigel.” (David Volodzko with ChatGPT).
There are some t...
Why student journalists are asking to remove their names from articles
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Last summer, a former student journalist asked the University of Michigan’s student paper The Michigan Daily to take down or anonymize an article they had written more than 10 years ago. The article mentioned their involvement...
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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.
Culture Editor, Expression | Founding Editor, Cinemantics | Director of Multimedia | Opinions my own.
First Amendment Advocate at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and a founding editor of Cinemantics.
Chief Research Advisor, FIRE
John is a legislative counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Opinions are my own.
I write about free speech issues in tech and telecom for FIRE, as well as some other things from time to time. I try to gather a good bit of that here.
Political Science @ Yale
Student Press Counsel for FIRE. I write about student press rights and a smorgasbord of other stuff. Opinions are my own. Author of Square Stage, a blog about breaking out of the performance of perfect. Because life's a stage, not a cage.
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