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Alex Morey

@1AMorey

13 days

Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of campus — not just disruptive ones. This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment but S.B. 18 which requires these…

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@DavidGriscom

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What do you call it when cops start doing this to journalists?

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President & Provost of @Cornell push back hard in rejection of student assembly's trigger warning resolution, citing the "fundamental" nature of academic freedom, educational quality, and the need for students to learn to confront tough topics.

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WTAMU President Walter Wendler says there's "No Such Thing [as a] Harmless Drag Show" in a stunning statement vowing to violate the First Amendment if needed to censor a student-run drag show raising money for The Trevor Project.

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Very respectfully, there is no constitutional right to forcibly occupy private property. I do agree police force should be a last resort, reasonable and proportional. These are, indeed, students who are, by definition, learning. But so are their classmates with divergent views…

Congressman Jamaal Bowman

@RepBowman

7 days

These are students. In no world should our kids be met with guns when using their constitutional right to peacefully assemble.

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11 days

Ohio State had snipers trained on students.

The Lantern

@TheLantern

11 days

According to information obtained Friday, university spokesperson Ben Johnson said once the troopers began using force on the students around 10 p.m., the state troopers on the roof switched to long-range firearms as part of their protocol. Read more:

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6 months

FIRE urges Florida public universities *not to comply* with any state order to derecognize campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine due to the groups’ views or ties to the national org. Silencing students’ protected speech violates the First Amendment & is unlawful.

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1 year

A new statement by @StanfordLaw Dean Jenny Martinez announces students will have a mandatory half-day training on free speech and norms of the legal profession. Dean Tirien Steinbach is "on leave."

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1 year

If you want high school students to have the right to wear "Let's Go Brandon" sweatshirts, you also need to defend the right of college students to host drag shows. And vice versa. At FIRE, we do both — because the Constitution demands it.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

1 year

BREAKING: FIRE sues Michigan school district for ordering students to remove “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts. ➡️

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8 days

@notcapnamerica Different kind of Streisand Effect but she’s going with it.

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5 months

Liz, put down the shovel. @Penn 's excellent free expression policy doesn't need revising. You need to read it, follow it, and understand why it's important. Penn already prohibits harassment, threats and other misconduct. These policies can all do their jobs if you do…

Penn

@Penn

5 months

A Video Message from President Liz Magill

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Alex Morey

@1AMorey

7 months

Florida public universities *cannot* lawfully do this. The First Amendment controls here, prohibiting this kind of viewpoint discrimination and protecting students’ associational rights. This is 50+ years of clear Supreme Court precedent.

Fox News Politics

@foxnewspolitics

7 months

DeSantis admin directs Florida universities to terminate student chapters that support 'Hamas terrorism'

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@1AMorey

2 years

FIRE is nonpartisan, full stop. I’m an almost-voted-for-Bernie liberal, committed anti-racist, and former Peace Corps Africa volunteer who does free speech work there. 👋 My personal and professional commitments are not in tension.

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1 year

Drag shows are a form of artistic expression protected on a public university campus just like any other expressive activity. This is settled First Amendment law — even if a university president doesn't like it.

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@1AMorey

25 days

On the Berkeley law student dinner incident, this is the question I've been getting all day from friends, journalists, etc. Here's the condensed version of how I'm answering it: 🧵

Charlie J. Johnson

@Charliemagne

27 days

@LauraPowellEsq What’s the crux of the 1A argument? Because it’s a public school-related function (maybe school $) it’s a public space?

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@1AMorey

5 months

@sfmcguire79 Before you plan your next protest, folks:

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Alex Morey

@1AMorey

9 months

People always misunderstand: It's not about whether DEI is "good" or "bad." From a First Amendment standpoint, forcing faculty to pledge allegiance to DEI is the same as forcing them to renounce Communism. Or making them "Stop W.O.K.E." for that matter.

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@TheFIREorg

9 months

JUST FILED: FIRE sues California Community Colleges (CCC) for forcing professors to incorporate the government’s DEI viewpoints into teaching and review.

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1 year

Served with a lawsuit today, @HamlineU — which in previous weeks repeatedly said students' feelings trump academic freedom — suggest it's all been a big misunderstanding and they've loved academic freedom all along.

After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments (Published 2023)

In an about-face, the school said that using the term was “flawed” and that respect for Muslim students should not have superseded academic freedom.

www.nytimes.com

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@1AMorey

5 months

FIRE’s done a very specific thing for almost 25 years in what, by any fair review of our record, is the most principled manner possible. We know speech codes. When we say a policy will undercut everyone’s rights — including the rights of the very group that policy aims to protect…

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@1AMorey

1 year

FIRE takes nonpartisanship so seriously that we don’t take institutional positions on the speech we defend-even when that speech is widely supported or reviled. That people read this neutrality as support is interesting. There IS also value in knowing what people actually think.

Dr. Mansa Keita

@rasmansa

1 year

The difference I see between them: ACLU would say: despite their vile and disgusting racism, the KKK still deserves free speech in public FIRE would say: political groups like the KKK should be welcomed into the discourse, despite protestations by censorious autoritarians

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UChicago has been showing the way for years. Universities should adopt their Chicago Statement on freedom of expression and the Kalven principles on institutional neutrality. Admins make their lives so. much. easier. with these in place. @uchicago @thechicagoforum

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. @UChicago really showing the benefits of having clear principals around speech

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1 year

We @TheFIREorg have picked our jaws up off the floor and are getting to work on this one. Wherever student rights are under threat, we're there. President @waltervwendler : You'll be hearing from FIRE.

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@1AMorey

1 year

More of The Stanford Effect? Days after Cornell pushed back hard on trigger warnings, following Stanford Law’s post-Duncan endorsement of the Kalven Report, here comes Penn State’s president supporting “even speech that tests the limits of tolerance.” @PSU

WATCH: President Bendapudi addresses controversial speakers visiting Penn State | Penn State...

Penn State fully supports the fundamental right of free speech – even speech that tests the limits of tolerance. Free speech and expression of ideas are essential to higher education’s academic and...

www.psu.edu

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25 days

Even if facts emerged suggesting Chemerinsky's backyard was, for legal purposes, a UC-controlled, limited forum for speech, he sets those limits of who speaks and about what. He doesn't have to let students take over his garden party and turn it into their political rally.

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1 year

Stanford Law School dean admits Judge Kyle Duncan's event "went awry." Suggests student hecklers violated policies: "It is a violation of the disruption policy to 'prevent the effective carrying out' of a 'public event.'" Excellent statement, just too late, from @StanfordLaw .

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1 year

@DrJessTaylor Zero people are proposing “using” dead women. This is an option for women who consent and want to donate their organs after they pass. If there’s nothing wrong with being an organ donor or giving your brain to science, there’s nothing wrong with this.

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“They said that I hit an officer. I didn’t hit an officer. They were pushing me. They were pushing me,” he said. “I was just covering things… I told them I was press.” Video sure seems to confirm journalist's account. He's now charged with a felony.

Austin photojournalist faces felony charge after arrest during UT protest, affidavit says

A felony charge was filed late last week against an Austin photojournalist who was arrested while covering a pro-Palestine protest on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin Wednesday, Apri…

www.kxan.com

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@1AMorey

12 days

@stevanzetti FIRE has some in the works re UT Austin.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

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UPDATE: In the wake of the shocking events at UT Austin yesterday, FIRE filed public records requests last night with both the university and the Texas Department of Public Safety. We’re looking into UT Austin’s protest-related comms with state officials. We’ll keep you posted…

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Alex Morey

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10 months

303 Creative's holding, entrenching the longstanding First Amendment prohibition against government-compelled speech, will be important in the public campus context, where faculty are being made to parrot administrators' precise views on ideologies like DEI to get or keep a job.

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1 year

A change dot org petition — "Save the WTAMU Drag Show" — created just a few hours ago is collecting signatures fast. Organizers just upped its goal of 500 signatures to 1,000.

Sign the Petition

Save the WTAMU Drag Show

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@1AMorey

10 months

Stanford Law announces Tirien Steinbach will leave her post, months after she appeared to facilitate a shoutdown of a 5th Circuit judge, leading Stanford to overhaul its free speech practices.

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@1AMorey

5 months

Reminds me of my favorite working-at-FIRE story where some satanist had gotten in trouble for something they said so we reached out to see if we could help and they were like “yeah geez I don’t know you guys seem kind of problematic.”

Satanic display inside Iowa State Capitol destroyed, man charged: officials

A man was charged with criminal mischief on Thursday after police in Iowa say that he tore down a satanic statue on display in the Iowa State Capitol.

www.foxnews.com

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7 days

This is just the law. We apply the same principles in every case. (See our record fighting for pro-Palestine and pro-Israel voices — heck, and these very students, — at ). People do get upset when they want special rules for speech they really agree with.…

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@1AMorey

7 days

Civil disobedience is, by definition, non-violent. Breaking and entering, vandalism, trespassing, and (per @ColumbiaSpec reporting) holding a maintenance worker hostage — is not "civil disobedience" and should be punished.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

7 days

Occupying a campus building, blocking students from attending classes, and vandalizing property is not protected by the First Amendment, full stop. It’s illiberal. It’s illegal. And it should be punished.

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4 months

And if you teach students fear and authoritarianism — that even hearing offensive ideas harms them, that they have no agency to confront bad ideas by exercising their own expressive rights, that they need authorities to suppress ideas they dislike ... well here we are.

Jonathan Haidt

@JonHaidt

4 months

Why is antisemitism so common at universities, but not at other American institutions? If you teach students academic theories that encourage them to hate groups and countries, you get students who can quickly learn to hate groups and countries.

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1 year

Amy Wax's hearing begins today at @Penn , where a faculty committee will oversee a disciplinary process reserved for the most serious misconduct. Yet Penn has never provided evidence of wrongdoing — only objections to Wax's speech and views. Wax could be stripped of tenure.

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@1AMorey

2 years

Newsflash for the president of @tennesseetech who yesterday threatened to investigate students who helped host a campus drag show: You can't.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

2 years

On a public campus, you can express opinions not everyone agrees with. You can drag the Queen, or be a drag queen. The First Amendment protects you. 💅 /7

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@1AMorey

1 year

We @TheFIREorg are looking into this.

David Lat

@DavidLat

1 year

1/ 🧵I’m interrupting my vacation to investigate the free-speech debacle at @StanfordLaw involving Judge Kyle Duncan (5th Cir.). This thread from @EdWhelanEPPC is accurate (but I have additional info).👇

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1 year

@Stanford According to The @StanfordDaily , a student filed a “harm” complaint after seeing a peer reading Hitler’s autobiography “Mein Kampf." Fun fact: The book has been required reading for at least one recent Stanford course and can be checked out the library.

Report filed as screenshot of student reading ‘Mein Kampf’ circulates Stanford

A Protected Identity Harm report has been filed after the circulation of a Snapchat screenshot of a student reading “Mein Kampf,” the autobiographical manifesto of Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler,...

stanforddaily.com

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6 months

If you want principled free speech defense, evenhandedly applying First Amendment law and best-practice free speech norms, irrespective of content or viewpoint, in every case—you’re not gonna like 90%+ of the speech defended. Because, by definition, it’s unpopular.

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@1AMorey

7 months

Very troubling development on the law student who lost a job offer over statements on the Middle East conflict. @NYU & @nyulaw should *not even be suggesting* the student could be under investigation for protected political speech. FIRE is watching closely.…

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@1AMorey

2 years

This is protected speech by a professor at a school with great free speech promises. @CarnegieMellon shouldn’t listen to calls to investigate or discipline Professor @UjuAnya #QueenElizabeth

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1 year

We’ve watched creeping campus illiberalism for a decade, driven by students in the name of ideological and emotional safety. New in the last year or so, and scary to see on video at Stanford, is the growing acceptance of authoritarian tactics to get it.

A Shoutdown at Stanford

Why free speech is “worth the squeeze.”

www.persuasion.community

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@1AMorey

2 years

For the record, speech "wishing harm" is protected under the First Amendment. You can wish harm, spew hatred, and hope for suffering all day — and *the government* cannot stop you. Go substantially beyond wishing into, say, threatening... another story.

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1 year

At FIRE, we know free speech. We’ll even defend your right to call for censorship. Of course, we’ll also point out why doing so is anti-democratic, illiberal, and an all around bad idea. 🧵

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This is simply … not true. Practically all I did last week was say words about Columbia suspending and arresting peaceful protesters — and disruptive ones. And whether President Shafik’s congressional testimony suggested viewpoint discrimination against pro-Palestinian speech.…

Law Boy

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FIRE, which bills itself as a free speech org specializing in free speech on campus, hasn't said a word about Columbia suspending and arresting peaceful protestors on campus

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2 years

Twitter has deleted @UjuAnya 's tweet for violating @Twitter 's rules. Is it within their rights to do that? Yes. Is it nonetheless troubling? Also yes.

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@1AMorey

5 months

Magill resigns. @Penn must use this moment, and the lessons that brought us to this sad place, to refocus on the university’s core mission: apolitical knowledge-building. Bowing to current pressure to erode core student and faculty rights instead may signal a point of no return.

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@dailypenn

5 months

BREAKING: Penn President Liz Magill will resign the presidency effective Dec. 9, according to an email sent to the Penn community around 4 p.m. today.

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@1AMorey

6 months

“If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” - Justice Louis Brandeis

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

6 months

SCOOP ⁦ @J_Insider ⁩ via ⁦ @HaleyCohen19 ⁩: “Brandeis becomes first private university to ban Students for Justice in Palestine on campus” Brandeis President: ‘Chants & social media posts calling for violence against Jews must not be tolerated’

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2 years

"FIRE has been sometimes stereotyped as a right-wing group overhyping the threat to free speech from campus progressives. But in fact ... it is that rare group which actually means it when it claims to be nonpartisan."

The ACLU Just Got Some Much-Needed Free Speech Competition

Critics, including former ACLU leaders, say the civil liberties group has ceded its historic role as a universal free speech advocate. But another organization is stepping up.

www.thedailybeast.com

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@1AMorey

1 year

Dear me. Lots to say about @HamlineU ’s latest (Worse? Somehow this is worse!) statement. It’s clear President Miller has no idea what academic freedom means and doesn’t plan to provide it. Work ahead for us @TheFIREorg and Hamline’s accreditor @hlcommission .

Jason DeRusha

@DeRushaJ

1 year

The president of Hamline University is not backing down at all. She argues it’s not an academic freedom issue, she didn’t fire the professor either.

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@1AMorey

7 months

Today in "Things that are not — I repeat, NOT — peaceful protest": Eating someone else's plastic fetus.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

7 months

At Binghamton University, student protestors allegedly damaged a pro-life group’s table display model. BU is reportedly the third school at which counter protestors have eaten part of the display in protest. Yes, you read that right.

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@1AMorey

6 months

FIRE sent versions of this letter to University of Florida President Ben Sasse to presidents at other FL System schools including: FSU, FIU, FAU, and USF.

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@1AMorey

17 days

FIRE will defend your right to say this.

Emily Nussbaum

@emilynussbaum

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I like some Taylor Swift songs but not others

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@1AMorey

15 days

@The_Law_Boy Try again?

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@1AMorey

18 days

Important data point further suggesting congressional pressure on Columbia to address anti-Semitism is prompting the university to come down harder on pro-Palestinian speech — in violation of the university's clear speech policies that they do not censor unpopular views.

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@1AMorey

25 days

The First Amendment limits how the government can regulate expression. If there’s no government action, the First Amendment’s not in play.

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@1AMorey

1 year

WSJ Editorial Board: “Cornell’s position is good news, but these bad ideas will recur as long as the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy governs academia, pushing the notion that honest speech and debate are traumatic.”

Opinion | Cornell’s Academic Freedom Test

Trigger warning: Students will have to hear new ideas.

www.wsj.com

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@1AMorey

3 months

Princeton is letting students who dislike student reporting slap the journalist with a no-contact order, without a modicum of due process, and where the reporter has done nothing wrong. And by the way, this has been going on, and Princeton's known about it, for OVER a year.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

3 months

JUST SENT: FIRE and the @ADL are challenging @Princeton ’s ongoing improper use of no-contact orders, allowing them to be weaponized against student journalists.

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1 year

Jon Rieder is a MLK Jr. expert, was a Guggenheim Fellow, studied at Harvard & Yale, and was on the front lines of some of the last century's biggest racial conflicts. But @BarnardCollege won't let him teach race — without submitting to re-education first.

Who’s allowed to teach ‘Culture in America’?

Jonathan Rieder spent his entire scholarly career researching racial conflict and the language we use to discuss race until Barnard College canceled one of his courses because of his approach to...

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“To fight antisemitism on campuses, we must restrict speech,” by @Penn Prof. Claire Finklestein who sits on Penn’s open expression committee — which will soon need renaming it seems. She’d ban speech “proxies” for genocide like “river to the sea,” etc.

Opinion | To fight antisemitism on campuses, we must restrict speech

Free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses. That was a mistake.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@1AMorey

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"If campus officials imagine that they can accept dozens, scores, or hundreds of chanting pro-Palestinian protesters setting up tents on a campus quad, would they show the same grace toward students wearing MAGA hats engaged in the same behavior? If students in their tents were…

Keith E. Whittington

@kewhittington

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My latest Opinion | Protest and Civil Disobedience Are Two Different Things

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Dean Chemerinsky got it right (because he wrote the book on the subject, link below), when he told the student "This is my house! The First Amendment doesn't apply.” But there are some gray areas the protesters have raised worth fleshing out.

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Fascinating minutes in which we see 1) multiple Cornell students say they've struggled with "triggering and violent content" in class; 2) they want these warnings everywhere: in syllabi, on Canvas, during registration, possibly via email; and 3) the resolution passes unanimously.

FIRE

@TheFIREorg

1 year

UPDATE: Cornell’s Student Assembly has posted the minutes from last week’s meeting, revealing that the resolution urging the administration to require content warnings in classrooms passed the student government “unanimously."

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10 months

So the conservative students want liberal professors punished for expressing their views and the liberal students want the conservative professors punished for expressing theirs. Sounds about right.

Majority of college students favor reporting professors for ‘offensive’ opinions: poll

Both conservative and liberal college students believe they should report a professor if they say something they find offensive, according to a survey from the Sheila and Robert Challey Institute f…

thehill.com

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@1AMorey

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Violence is the opposite of free expression. Universities with protests devolving into violence must marshal every resource to keep students, faculty, and journalists safe from crimes like assault. Violent actors should be arrested and prosecuted. Peaceful protests should be…

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@1AMorey

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USC goes the opaque “safety concerns” route in cancelling Asna Tabassum’s valedictorian address — without actually overtly censoring it or yanking her status. Aren’t they clever.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

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USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students” ‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

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“where might students have got this sort of idea?” EXACTLY. Campuses have modeled the very behavior they’re warning students away from now — Now that admins can’t reliably take sides on Israel/Palestine as they’ve done on so many other social and political issues for the better…

Nicholas A. Christakis

@NAChristakis

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I have some thoughts on this fine statement by @Yale President Peter Salovey regarding desire by some students to impose "ideological litmus test" for access to a shared Yale space. Salovey said: “Those protestors asked individuals who wished to pass through or enter their…

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We’ll defend it. Looks like speech on a matter of public concern. And we’ll defend the rights of the students he’s criticized, who appear to be praying in an open forum. We defend peaceful protest, and criticism of it. If it’s protected speech, FIRE defends it.

@ijbailey

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I’ve defended many professors and students who’ve said stupid crap and things I’ve really disagreed with, on free expression grounds. I will continue doing that. But I’m gonna bow out of this one. I can’t defend this dude. Someone else will have to. This is just too much.

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@1AMorey

1 year

These @StanfordLaw students don't understand the free speech rules that govern them. Stanford Policy and CA's Leonard Law provide them First Amendment-like rights on campus: In open public areas of campus, they may peacefully protest. A speaking event *isn't a public forum.*

Aaron Sibarium

@aaronsibarium

1 year

NEW: Hundreds of Stanford students lined the halls yesterday to protest the law school’s dean, Jenny Martinez, for apologizing to Kyle Duncan, the judge shouted down last week. The students effectively subjected Martinez to an intimidating walk of shame.🧵

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Read the wrong book at @Stanford , report directly to "restorative justice."

Report: Stanford student may need to ‘take accountability,’ ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading Hitler’s...

Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention, but that’s what’s reportedly happening at Stanford University after a photo of a student reading Adolf...

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@1AMorey

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FL law, U.S. Congress, and the Supreme Court (see Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project) all define provision of material support to terrorism as *conduct* beyond pure speech. DeSantis et al provide zero evidence the students targeted here engaged in anything other than pure speech.

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@ErinLwoh Next thing you know they’ll be throwing a quinceañera. The slipperiest of slopes right here.

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“13 leaders — hailing from Cornell, Duke, and Rutgers Universities, to name a few — are pledging to ‘urgently spotlight, uplift, and re-emphasize’ free speech and academic freedom over the next academic year.”

College Presidents Are Planning ‘Urgent Action’ to Defend Free Speech

The effort by the leaders of 13 colleges, most of them private, is the latest example of an increasingly forceful defense of free-speech principles.

www.chronicle.com

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FIRE IS NONPARTISAN. We’re the good guys. Dare anyone to give a serious, good-faith look at our 20+ -year track record and say otherwise.

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“Our students are coming at this with good intentions, but ... it’s a critical part of higher education to learn how to engage with challenging and difficult ideas. It teaches you to listen, compromise and advocate.” — @Cornell President Martha Pollack

Should College Come With Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’ (Published 2023)

When the student assembly voted to require faculty to alert students to upsetting educational materials, administrators pushed back.

www.nytimes.com

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@kenklippenstein All the cool kids leave D.C. for Wisconsin. I raise a beer-battered cheese curd to this A+ decision.

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One of the metrics I use to know whether I’m helping defend speech in a principled and thoroughly non-partisan way, is whether I get repeatedly called both a right winger and a communist on the same day. By that measure, it’s another solid week in the books.

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Columbia closing its entire campus to the public over safety concerns about growing Middle East protest is incredibly unusual. Trying to think of a precedent. I can't recall one.

Columbia Closes Campus as Israel-Hamas War Protests Erupt

Tensions have risen around the city as supporters of each side stage protests and police investigate possible hate crimes.

www.nytimes.com

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@jgrantaddison Oh, no. They've put a lot of thought into their rule that says wishing harm on people is banned — unless they're subjectively ok with whom you're wishing harm on. Wild.

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In 24 hrs. I’ve been asked why we defend “only Satanists & drag queens” & also why we want campuses to be “havens for only white Christians.” Practice for if I end up in front of Satan or Jesus someday and they’ve got similar questions? Ghost of Lenny Bruce, hear our prayer.

Greg Lukianoff

@glukianoff

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Another day, another hour in which I am called both an evil left-winger & an evil right winger. Should I remind people that neither is a substantive argument? Nothing about being either or neither means you’re necessarily wrong or right. I know. Twitter blasphemy. Partisan…

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Admins @HamlineU made clear over the weekend they have no intention of providing academic freedom for their faculty — so @TheFIREorg filed a formal complaint with #Hamline 's accreditor today. #highered

FIRE files accreditor complaint over Minnesota art history professor fired for showing Muhammad...

www.thefire.org

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FIRE wrote Harvard just last month explaining that this collaboration policy broadly violates the expressive and associational rights Harvard clearly promises. We warned them it could be easily abused to punish controversial speech or groups.

The Harvard Crimson

@thecrimson

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BREAKING: Harvard Suspends Palestine Solidarity Committee Amid Wave of Protests on College Campuses Crimson News Staff reports.

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@audiosand @Cigna This is awful. Praying for your son and @Cigna to make it right. I don’t know how these predatory health insurance people sleep at night.

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Penn's faculty senate says academic freedom and free speech are THE most important things — which must mean they're finally gonna go to bat for Amy Wax! Surely the months-long investigation into her speech will wrap in her favor any minute now.

Jared Mitovich

@jmitovich

7 months

NEW: Values of free speech "are being threatened by individuals outside of the University who are surveilling both faculty and students in an effort to intimidate them and inhibit their academic freedom," @Penn 's Faculty Senate tri-chairs say as the donor retaliation continues.

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If cancelled over pushback, this is bad. @UChicago is one of the best schools in the nation for free speech where “[I]t is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.”

DANIEL SCHMIDT

@realdschmidt

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UPDATE: @UChicago has just CANCELLED “The Problem of Whiteness” class. Thank you to everyone who shared my thread. We are obviously fighting an uphill battle, but this is a huge victory. Students need to call out anti-white hatred whenever they see it. Just the beginning.

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A beloved @SyracuseU student leader has been branded a hazer and suspended for causing "mental harm" over a zany, optional scavenger hunt suggesting students earn points by licking a statue or rolling down campus steps.

Syracuse suspends student orientation leader for hosting scavenger hunt

Over the years, Syracuse has earned its dystopian reputation for free speech, punishing students for parody blogs, satirical skits, Halloween costumes, Facebook comments, sharp questions, words they...

www.thefire.org

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Is “There are 2 genders.” “proxy” for trans genocide? Is “Women need the right to choose.” “proxy” for genocide of the unborn? Is an IDF official speaking on campus defending the war in Gaza “proxy” for genocide of Palestinians? Some admins. will think so and censor accordingly.

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Chemerinsky, for the record, has suggested there wasn't state action here at all, telling media the dinner was "not paid for by the University of California."

Confrontation at UC Berkeley Law School Dean's Home Highlights Campus Tensions | KQED

The incident is the latest flare-up in a long succession of heated protests and confrontations on UC Berkeley’s campus, which has been a hotbed of student activism and protests since the Israel-Hamas...

www.kqed.org

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"Who knows?" (!?) Stanford, for one, has clear policies that students agree to follow. There's also California's Leonard Law and a century of First Amendment jurisprudence informing these concepts. This is well-settled law that elite @StanfordLaw students certainly should know.

Eric Segall

@espinsegall

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Stanford Dean Martinez faced protesters and this white board when teaching her con law class. Here’s the thing: we are light years away from a coherent theory of free speech on campus. Who has the right? The students, the faculty, the administration? All the above? Who knows?

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But remember, in limited public forums, the host sets the limits. So back to Chemerinsky's garden: even if there was evidence this was a school-sponsored event and thereby a limited public forum for speech, Chemerinsky still decides who can speak and on what topics.

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After committing to a year of free speech, @Stanford now wisely saying they won’t take stances on social/political issues from here on out. Other university leaders’ statements this week on the Middle East have been radioactive — and they should seriously consider following suit.

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

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NEW: In language reminiscent of the Kalven Report, @Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez endorse institutional neutrality as their general policy:

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These are the saddest days in the campus speech space. You never want to see police in riot gear descend on college student protesters. Yeah. We’ve got rules and laws and reasons. And it’s complicated. But it didn’t have to come to this. If admins had been doing their jobs for…

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Told to stop using expletives addressing the former police chief, Cross responds: “Language, language, language. My child is fucking dead. Dead. And you have the balls and the gall to stand up here.”

HuffPost

@HuffPost

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Uvalde Parent Arrested At County Commissioners' Meeting

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Students do appear to be in violation of valid, neutrally-applied college policy. (We're checking.) Students have said they are ok being arrested. If they elect to engage in civil disobedience, they can expect consequences like suspension or arrest.

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

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#NOW Police raid Columbia University Lawn after Pro-palestine 'Liberated Zone' encampment stays put and refuses to disperse until all of their demands are met.

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"As part of your education you should expect, and indeed welcome, disagreement." Every college and university promising free expression should follow @Stanford 's lead — expectation-setting and educating incoming students on these norms.

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

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NEW: Stanford’s president and provost have sent a letter to incoming freshman championing free expression and diversity of thought: “As a member of the Stanford community, you will quickly learn that freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression are core values at Stanford. They…

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Along with “right” leaning speech that’s relatively unpopular and needs more defending these days, we’ve also fought for socialists, student Bernie voters and marijuana-legalization advocates, we put Obama’s liberal defense of campus speech all over our socials...

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Penn @Wharton ’s resolution to ban even “veiled” hate/violent speech and advocacy of murder/genocide will have unintended consequences. Similarly vague/overbroad policies are abused every single day on campuses nationwide. They’re written in a way that makes abuse *inevitable.*

Jonathan Friedman 📚

@jonfreadom

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- What if a student or faculty celebrated the murder of Bin Laden? - What’s to stop an intellectual discussion from being construed as a “threat to physical safety”? And what’s “subject to immediate discipline”? Sounds like a recipe for kneejerk terminations or suspensions. /4

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Principled free speech advocates defend faculty's right to teach controversial material, whether it's CRT or Conservatism, student groups' right to invite controversial speakers with a variety of views, and ensure against criminal activity like violence or vandalism that makes…

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These people spent years telling us that trigger warnings and campus speaker cancellations were signs of creeping authoritarianism and now they are defending police crackdowns on students protesting mass murder. Wish I could say I was surprised.

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@StanfordLaw Martinez said she'd hoped to wait until Stanford's quarterly finals period was over, but ongoing criticism and "the volume of hateful and even threatening messages" to those on campus pushed the timeline.

Letter from Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez to the campus community, March 22, 2023

www.thefire.org

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“A blasphemy exception to academic freedom… would be a Pandora's box: Once opened, there would be no stopping the justifications to censor that would flow from it. Just take a cursory look at what constitutes religious offense around the world today.”

OPINION EXCHANGE | Banning blasphemy, Hamline cancels academic freedom

This decision opens Pandora's box of academic restrictions.

www.startribune.com

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@ValidScience What is our framework? The law. For the definition of true threats see Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343. Incitement: Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444.

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