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FIRE Featured in ‘Mallard Fillmore’
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FIRE demands LA City Council end policy banning certain words during public comment
The Constitution forbids the government from banning words. But the Los Angeles City Council doesn’t seem to understand.
The man who wants back into San Quentin
Bill Smoot taught literature at San Quentin for 14 years — then a novel with an escape plot cost him his classroom. Now he wants back in.
This European country launched a task force to target ‘hate speech.’ Now a journalist who insulted politicians is going to prison.
Georgia's new 'hate speech' task force is sending critics to court — and one journalist to prison — for insulting politicians on social media posts.
Shiloh Hendrix’s conviction can’t be squared with the First Amendment
However much offense words cause, that does not justify the government imprisoning, fining, or otherwise punishing the speaker.