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Vague Anti-bullying Laws Have Unintended Negative Consequences
Read Massachusetts attorney Gregory C. Keating's op-ed in today's Boston Globe on how the "unworkably broad definition of bullying" in the state's new anti-bullying law, "while well-intended, is fraught with problems and has already led to unintended and unfortunate consequences."
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Columbia needs to stop doing politics and start doing higher education
As the situation on Columbia’s campus deteriorated earlier this year, the university’s then-president consulted with powerful politicians about the bad optics of the protests.
Free speech promises out of tune: Berklee College of Music indefinitely postpones event featuring Detransition Awareness
Administrators postponed an event featuring Simon Amaya Price, who once identified as transgender but later reconnected with their biological sex, following backlash from campus community.
SHOCKING: 4 in 5 Americans think ‘words can be violence’
In a new FIRE poll, 4 in 5 Americans (80%) agreed at least slightly with the idea that “words can be violence.”
Let the uninhibited debate begin! – Lukianoff v. Franks? – First Amendment News 445
George Washington Law professor Mary Anne Franks is ready to take on some noted First Amendment advocates, including FIRE’s own CEO Greg Lukianoff.