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Quick Thoughts on Stand Up For Speech’s Successful First Year
To celebrate a very successful first year for FIRE’s Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project, I’ve written a few quick thoughts for The Huffington Post about why the effort is necessary and how colleges can avoid being named in our next lawsuit. Here’s to even more victories in Stand Up For Speech’s second year!
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Campus hecklers are silencing pro-Israel speakers. Speech codes are not the fix.
Campus hecklers can silence pro-Israel speakers. But vague antisemitism rules risk a second kind of censorship. Universities should reject both.
Tuskegee tells students to suit up and leave the durag at home
Tuskegee can teach professionalism without policing culturally expressive clothing in classrooms and cafeterias.
Student punished for ‘blasted’ comment wins court battle
A college suspended a student for saying someone should get “blasted.” Now a federal court says the punishment violated the First Amendment.
How the unraveling of Jason Arday's career and the UK's censorship collided
A Cambridge professor’s story unraveled. But Britain’s costly libel laws and overzealous police helped keep the scandal buried for months.