Free Speech Tag

‘Twitch’ Live Streaming Platform Creates Snitch Service To Police Off-Platform Thought and Conduct

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 11, 2021 24 Comments

"we’ve created a dedicated email address where anyone can report egregious, off-service misconduct in the categories above committed by a member of the Twitch community," the company noted in an April 7th blog post....

Union College of New York Criticized for Broad Definition of Harassment

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 08, 2021 5 Comments

"defines harassment in its student handbook so broadly that students could be punished for speech that an administrator thinks was intended to humiliate or mentally harm someone"...

VIDEO: Western Carolina U. Housing Coordinator Tells RAs to be Inclusive, Avoid ‘Christmas’ or ‘Easter’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 02, 2021 5 Comments

"We always say 'happy holidays' just because we have to be inclusive here at Western."...

U. San Diego Law School blows off demand it stop investigation of Prof. Thomas Smith over criticisms of Chinese government

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2021 5 Comments

Thomas Smith is the 'conservative' law professor at University of San Diego Law School who has been targeted by student cry-bullies after he harshly criticized the Chinese government for its handling of the coronavirus and expressed his belief that the virus leaked from a Wuhan virology lab.

Oregon Association of Scholars Calls Out Censorship at Portland State U — PSU Claps Back

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on March 28, 2021 15 Comments

The Oregon Association of Scholars (OAS) issued a report in March titled, The New Censorship in American Higher Education: Insights from Portland State University. In that report, they point to the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 as a pretense to impose censorship on American campuses.

Professor Who Refused To Obey “Preferred Pronouns” Can Continue Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2021 29 Comments

The level of speech control on campuses in mind-numbing. If you've followed the dozens, maybe hundreds, of cases and incidents we've covered in the last decade, you'd know that campuses are the most intolerant places in the country, though corporations are catching up quickly.

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Clemson Students Demand School Ban Conservative Personality Tomi Lahren From Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 26, 2021 8 Comments

“We are committed to creating a more equal, fair and inclusive environment on our campus”...

Black Student Leaders at U. Maryland Push for Transcript Notations for Those Accused of Hate Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 24, 2021 14 Comments

"laundry list also asks administrators to create several spaces solely for black students on campus"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLMBT6zNgN8

Masterpiece Cakeshop On Trial For Refusing To Bake A “Transition” Cake

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2021 64 Comments

Masterpiece Cake Shop famously won a U.S. Supreme Court case over it's owner Jack Phillips' refusal to bake a cake that celebrated a same-sex marriage. Phillips said while he would sell anyone a cake, requiring him to put lettering on it celebrating the marriage violated his religious beliefs and was unconstitutional.

San Diego Law School “Must Immediately Cease Its Investigation” Into Prof. Thomas Smith Over China Criticism, Demands Free Speech Group

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2021 8 Comments

In letter to Dean Robert Schapiro, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education writes: "Smith’s post on his personal blog is an exercise of extramural expression, a right USD Law expressly provides to its faculty...

President of U. Texas at Austin: “There Is No Higher Education Without Free Speech”

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 20, 2021 6 Comments

"Free speech is perhaps the greatest right we have as Americans."...

De Blasio Wants Police to Scold People For Saying Things That Are Legal But “Not Appropriate”

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 18, 2021 74 Comments

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has no problem with the NYPD acting like the speech police to help combat so-called hate crimes against Asian-Americans:

“Even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it’s NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they’ve done was very hurtful to another person — and could, if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges — that’s another important piece of the puzzle,” de Blasio told reporters.

Scotland’s Controversial Hate Crime Bill Criminalizes Statements Made In The Privacy Of One’s Home

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 14, 2021 36 Comments

On Thursday, Scotland passed a watered-down version of its Hate Crime Bill. The attack on free speech is still rather alarming even in its less overtly tyrannical state. For example, it includes criminalizing utterances made in the privacy of one's home.

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Free Speech Tag

Union College of New York Criticized for Broad Definition of Harassment

VIDEO: Western Carolina U. Housing Coordinator Tells RAs to be Inclusive, Avoid ‘Christmas’ or ‘Easter’

U. San Diego Law School blows off demand it stop investigation of Prof. Thomas Smith over criticisms of Chinese government

Oregon Association of Scholars Calls Out Censorship at Portland State U — PSU Claps Back

Professor Who Refused To Obey “Preferred Pronouns” Can Continue Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules

Clemson Students Demand School Ban Conservative Personality Tomi Lahren From Campus

Black Student Leaders at U. Maryland Push for Transcript Notations for Those Accused of Hate Speech

Masterpiece Cakeshop On Trial For Refusing To Bake A “Transition” Cake

San Diego Law School “Must Immediately Cease Its Investigation” Into Prof. Thomas Smith Over China Criticism, Demands Free Speech Group

President of U. Texas at Austin: “There Is No Higher Education Without Free Speech”

De Blasio Wants Police to Scold People For Saying Things That Are Legal But “Not Appropriate”

Scotland’s Controversial Hate Crime Bill Criminalizes Statements Made In The Privacy Of One’s Home

U.S. Supreme Court: Former College Student Can Sue For Free Speech Violation, Roberts Is Sole Dissent

Student Journalist Sues University President for Allegedly Forbidding Journalism

FIRE Awards Syracuse University ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’

The Targeting of Princeton Prof. Joshua Katz Continues

Prof Who Called for Firing People Over Speech is Fired Over Speech

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