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VIDEO: 'Feds Push Insane New Speech Codes!' Greg on ReasonTV
Lots of people are (rightly) concerned about the new speech code “blueprint” that the Departments of Education and Justice set down last week. In the latest coverage of this dangerous federal mandate, Reason’s Matt Welch sat down with FIRE President Greg Lukianoff to ask why exactly this letter is so bad. Greg’s answer? “It is so broad that it turns every single student and every single faculty member on campus, at least arguably, into harassers.” Check out the video below and on Reason.com!
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German chancellor echoes the frequent — and illiberal — call to end online anonymity
Online anonymity is vital to free speech in Germany. And the United States.
Ruling on Palestine Action ban casts even more doubt on UK’s troubling mass arrests of peaceful protesters
A UK court says banning the group Palestine Action was unlawful — after more than 2,700 arrests — but the ban remains pending appeal. So for now, supporting the group is essentially Schrödinger’s speech crime.
He refused to censor his syllabus — so Texas Tech cancelled his class
In another blow to academic freedom in the Lone Star state, Texas Tech canceled a psychology class after the professor refused to scrub race and gender from his syllabus.
Fandom’s lighthouse in a sea of censorship
In the storm of internet censorship and cancel crusades, the fanfic database Archive Of Our Own (AO3) has become a lighthouse of artistic expression.