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The Age of Censorship Is Ending Jan. 08, 2025
This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be revising i... Read More
A Brief History of Free Speech in America Sep. 26, 2024
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." —First Amen... Read More
Free Speech and the Department of Political Justice Sep. 12, 2024
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and co... Read More
Kamala Harris's Banana Republic on Free Speech Sep. 06, 2024
In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper that social media companies "are direct... Read More
Democracy Dies in Darkness -- or in White House Briefing Aug. 15, 2024
WASHINGTON — This is how much Elon Musk spooks big media. At Monday's White House press briefi... Read More
Boos and Hisses for the Kansas City Kicker May. 17, 2024
On May 11, Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker gave the commencement address at Benedicti... Read More
Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee May. 16, 2024
Can an idea be dangerous? Can a dangerous idea be expressed? Can the government punish ideas it deem... Read More
Anti-Censorship Group Canceled by Pro-Hamas Authors Apr. 24, 2024
The leftist "free expression" group PEN America collided with a brick wall of radicals who don't lik... Read More
Bully Bobby Is No Friend of Free Speech Apr. 05, 2024
With every day that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. runs his peculiar presidential campaign, he offers a displ... Read More
Communities Should Reject Surveillance Products Whose Makers Won't Allow Them To Be Independently Evaluated Mar. 25, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
American communities are being confronted by a lot of new police technology these days, a lot of whi... Read More
Texas and Florida Say the First Amendment Must Be Sacrificed to Save It: Supreme Court Arguments About Two Social Media Laws Highlight a Dangerous Conflation of State and Private Action Feb. 28, 2024
A social media platform is like a telegraph, Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson told the Supreme ... Read More
More than 20 Million People Are About To Lose Internet Access Feb. 26, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
For people across the country, reliable internet access allows them to engage with the world. Think ... Read More
Anti-DEI Efforts Are the Latest Attack on Racial Equity and Free Speech Feb. 19, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
First, Donald Trump and right-wing extremists attacked government trainings on racism and sexism. Th... Read More
Taking Free Speech Seriously Feb. 08, 2024
Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms?... Read More
The Importance of Defending the Free Speech Rights of Pro-Palestinian Students in Florida Jan. 29, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Like everyone else, college students have a First Amendment right to express their political opinion... Read More
Makers Versus Takers Jan. 03, 2024
Are you a MAKER or a TAKER? Politicians are often takers. They take our money (and freedom) in the n... Read More
In Defense of Free Speech and Free Silence Dec. 14, 2023
"I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire ... Read More
The University of Michigan Failed To Protect My Right To Free Speech Nov. 24, 2023
I arrived at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Nov. 16 to deliver a speech on Isr... Read More
Trump Gag Order Raises Unsettled Constitutional Questions: A D.C. Circuit Judge Says the Government's Defense of the Order Gives Short Shrift to 'the First Amendment's Vigorous Protection of Political Speech' Nov. 22, 2023
"I'll be the only politician in history" who "won't be allowed to criticize people," former Presiden... Read More
How Did We Get Here? Nov. 16, 2023
The pro-Hamas protests and marches keep expanding across our college and university campuses. Much t... Read More
