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Age checks for AI could become ID checks, threatening privacy, anonymity, and the freedom to ask questions, learn, and explore ideas online.

How did FIRE become a leading voice on AI? By defending free speech in legislatures, courts, research, and emerging technology.

AI isn’t authorless. Every chatbot reply reflects human choices — and the First Amendment protects both its creation and your access.

Applying First Amendment principles to AI-generated expression is both a natural extension of those principles and a necessary step to prevent those principles’ weakening in other applications, including in areas like newspapers and video games.

From breaking news analysis and legal battles to cultural trends, this is where we go beyond the headlines — taking you into the fight to defend the First Amendment and bringing you the stories that shape free speech in America.

What is the Eternally Radical Idea? It is freedom of speech. The unfettered right to state your opinion is extremely rare in human history. Check out FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff's blog on Substack.

We are a podcast community that explores free speech: not just free speech’s applicability under the law, but also its place in our life and culture.

Before he championed democracy abroad, Woodrow Wilson built America's first modern censorship regime, jailing dissenters and crushing opposition in the name of war.

In 1892, a mob destroyed a Memphis newspaper after it published an anti lynching editorial. Through death threats and violence, they tried to erase journalist Ida B. Wells’s message. Instead, they made her fight impossible to ignore.

Two hundred fifty years after "Common Sense," Thomas Paine’s life reminds us that free speech and free thought are the lifeblood of a free society.

Anthony Comstock turned Victorian panic into federal censorship, criminalizing “obscene” speech and policing American morality. This is his story.