Take action to protect speech

If we allow scholars to be intimidated into silence under the threat of meritless legal action, we risk losing the critical voices that keep our government, history, and society honest.

Texas lawmakers are censoring first and asking questions later. This doesn’t make anyone safer; it just silences essential conversations.

FIRE filed a petition on June 17 calling on President Joe Biden to posthumously pardon D.M. Bennett, one of the Comstock Act’s most prominent victims.

Speak out against this unconstitutional legislation by emailing your senator today.

Demand state police develop and implement policies that ensure our First Amendment rights.

We urge you to stand with FIRE in telling Berklee College of Music to abide by its commitment to free expression. 

Over the past year, NYU has repeatedly violated the expressive rights of students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian speech. NYU must be held accountable for its campaign of censorship.

Tell Columbia to cultivate a better climate for free expression by realigning itself with its own promises to protect free speech. Only then can Columbia bounce back from this year’s ranking.

Because UT Dallas has continuously allowed the "spirit rocks" to be used for political expression, it cannot now limit that speech or cut it off entirely because it does not like the views expressed. 

Penn State is engaging in censorship, and it must end now.