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Tech companies’ censorship compliance abroad, dual U.S.-Saudi citizen facing jail time, and more free speech trouble in the UK

This year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch , a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the gl...

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Hunt adv. Lombardi: Sergeants-At-Arms Expel Man Wearing 'Pro-Life U' Sweatshirt from Colorado State Senate Gallery

Search all Cases Government officials can’t kick someone out of a public legislative gallery just because they don’t like the message on their shirt. If there is anywhere that Americans’ First Amendme...

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Freedom of Conscience

Freedom of conscience means the right to arrive at one’s private beliefs without being coerced into an artificial unity by those who wield power over us. After all, the freedom to speak is a dead lett...

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Secret Service Director: No Snipers on Roof Where Crooks Shot Trump Due to Sloped Roof

Snipers inside the building. Warnings of suspicious person. It’s hard to keep up with the information coming out about the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. I don’t want t...

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Groups across ideological spectrum unite in opposing Antisemitism Awareness Act

Shutterstock.com Since October 7 and the subsequent campus protests around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed to address concerns about anti-Semitism on coll...

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Surveys reveal rising student and faculty concern about censorship, self-censorship post-October 7

Shutterstock In a year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict went from barely a blip on most students’ radars to an almost all-consuming concern. Findings from FIRE’s forthcoming 2025 College Free Speech ...

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Middle Tennessee State University earns top rating for free speech

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., July 12, 2024 — Middle Tennessee State University is the latest school to earn a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Only 68 colleges an...

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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Transgender Challenge To Tennessee’s Birth Certificate Policy

Court: There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex. In a 2-1 decision last Friday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Tennessee’s po...

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University of Florida suspends student for three years over peaceful protest

Shutterstock Plaza of the Americas at the University of Florida University of Florida president Ben Sasse has historically spoken out in defense of free speech on campus. FIRE agrees with him that col...

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Government transparency is critical when it comes to fighting censorship

In its Murthy v. Missouri ruling last week, the Supreme Court stopped short of deciding whether pressure on social media platforms by federal officials to censor speakers violates the First Amendment....

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Supreme Court agrees to review Fifth Circuit decision upholding Texas’ adult content age-verification law

Shutterstock.com Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton , which upheld Texas’ adult content age-verification law. As FIRE explain...

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Trump Picks Vice President: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance

J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State “University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journ...

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On break from the burden of self-censorship

College students gather outside the Constitution Center during FIRE's 2023 Student Network Conference. Justo Antonio Triana is a rising senior at Syracuse University and a FIRE summer intern. There’s ...

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Faculty can address Israeli-Palestinian conflict in class assignments, but there are limits

Shutterstock.com Were the Gaza solidarity encampments erected on college campuses this spring an effective, or even legitimate, form of protest? Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? It depends on wh...

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Judge rules rapper B.G. must submit all lyrics to the feds before he records or performs them

AP Photo / Peter Kramer Rapper Christopher "B.G." Dorsey at the 4th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors ceremony at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Oct. 4, 2007. If a person breaks the law and goes to p...

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My Take: “We Came Within An Inch Of The Country Coming Apart”

Hearing the news of the Donald Trump assassination attempt, I had a couple of initial reactions to it: Deep emotions relating to my childhood memory of the JFK assassination, and how close we are to o...

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Fed investigation of Lafayette College over Israel-Hamas protests highlights new threat to free speech

Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK University of Michigan students walk out for to protest a proposed disruptive activity policy. Last week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released i...

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House Oversight Committee continues chilling investigation into student groups and nonprofits

Ron Adar / Shutterstock.com A new letter from House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer to the executive director of American Muslims for Palestine is a chilling development in...

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European Leaders, Media React to Assassination Attempt on Trump

German magazine DER SPIEGEL: Trump’s raised fist “captured the profound sense of the moment.” European and Western leaders overwhelmingly condemned the attempted assassination on former U.S. President...

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President Trump: “We will FEAR NOT” And “Stand United” Against Evil

Melania Trump also issues a statement: “A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion” President Trump has posted an uplifting message to h...

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