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We explore how censorship is impacting institutions -- from universities to law firms to the Maine House of Representatives. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:40 Federal government cuts Columbia's funding 16:57 Updates on the Mahmoud Khalil case...
Analysis of free speech and other civil liberties issues from legal and cultural thought leaders.
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by retired law professor Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
The Free Speech Dispatch is a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the global context of free expression.
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 this blog on Substack.
WATCH VIDEO: FIRE Senior Fellow and former ACLU President Nadine Strossen discusses what is commonly known as "The Weimar Fallacy"
There were many hate speech laws in Weimar Germany, and they were strongly enforced against the Nazis — including Hitler himself. Not only did those hate speech laws help the Nazis gain power, they also helped the Nazis censor anyone who challenged it.
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