Free Speech Tag

Texas Wesleyan U. Cancels Black Playwright’s Work Because Character in Play Uses the N-Word

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 05, 2022 30 Comments

"The university held the open session, facilitated by Assistant Director for Student Diversity and Inclusion Programs Chatashia Brown, after learning that several students organized a petition to support the cancelation of the play and planned to protest on opening night."...

George Washington U. Prof Removed for Using “‘N-Word’ in Educational Context”

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 03, 2022 11 Comments

“My hands were just shaking, like I just really didn’t know how to react, what to say, what to do and I just felt alone”...

MIT Wants Faculty to Embrace Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 29, 2022 11 Comments

"Free expression is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition of a diverse and inclusive community."...

Former Saint Vincent College Prof: Groupthink ‘Demonstrates the Moral Collapse of Higher Education’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 29, 2022 2 Comments

"It took the administration only hours to cave to the woke mob, which was comprised of a handful of students and alums, an activist board member, and some local agitators."...

American Bar Association Files Brief Supporting Disciplining Lawyers Who Offend Protected Groups

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 29, 2022 27 Comments

ABA files amicus brief in pending case testing legality of a Pennsylvania professional conduct rule muzzling lawyers’ supposedly offensive speech, clearly intended to mandate adherence to leftist race and other politics....

Study Finds College Students of No Faith Less Likely to Support Free Expression

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 26, 2022 3 Comments

"Nearly four in ten (38%) students on collegiate campuses today are either atheists, agnostics, or nothing in particular."...

University of North Texas Settles With Professor Fired After Mocking ‘Microaggressions’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 25, 2022 17 Comments

Earlier this year, a math professor named Dr. Nathaniel Hiers was fired by the University of North Texas after leaving a comment on a chalkboard that made fun of microaggressions. Professor Hiers sued the school. In April, a court ruled that the lawsuit could proceed. The school has now settled with him.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Law Banning Viewpoint Discrimination On Largest Internet Platforms

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 24, 2022 40 Comments

In a split decision, the Fifth Circuit reverses district court decision in NetChoice v Paxton....

College Republicans at Southern New Hampshire U. Claim School Restricted Speaker Due to ‘Controversial Speakers’ Policy

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 21, 2022 4 Comments

"they limited it to SNHU students only, which reduced the number of people who could attend"...

Young Americans for Liberty Brings Free Speech Case to Alabama Supreme Court

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 19, 2022 3 Comments

“The bureaucrats in the University of Alabama system have made it clear that they view their students’ rights to free expression as secondary to their own desire for control”...

U Penn Law Prof. Amy Wax Seeks Dismissal Of University Disciplinary Proceedings: “Premature, Unwarranted, and Prejudicial”

Posted by Jane Coleman on September 16, 2022 22 Comments

"The substantive and procedural problems with the proceedings instituted by Dean Ruger are immense and require immediate rectification ...

READ: Our Opposition To Biden’s Plan to Gut Campus Due Process and Free Speech, and Impose Gender Ideology

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 13, 2022 10 Comments

Legal Insurrection Foundation files comment letter: "we oppose the Department’s (a) efforts to gut due process protections for persons accused of sexual harassment, (b) threats to free speech posed by dramatic expansion of its definition of harassment, and (c) imposition of gender identity ideology into...

Columbia University Named Worst College in the Nation for Free Speech by FIRE

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 09, 2022 3 Comments

"New York City’s Ivy was dragged down by its high number of scholars who were sanctioned for expressing their views"...

Left Now Demanding Spotify Drop Joe Rogan Because He Said ‘Vote Republican’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 04, 2022 26 Comments

Here we go again. Back in January, singer Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify, claiming that Joe Rogan was spreading misinformation about COVID, causing many people on the left to demand the platform dump Rogan. Now the left is once again demanding the same thing because during a recent episode of his podcast, Rogan said "vote Republican."

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