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FIREin ‘The Boston Globe’
FIRE’s exposure of the absurd sexual misconduct policy in force at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania has attracted the notice of columnist Cathy Young of The Boston Globe and Reason magazine. In , Young skewers the Gettysburg policy that puts an unauthorized hug on a spectrum with sexual assault, observing, as did ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ, that “because it is impossible to enforce such a policy consistently, it will inevitably be enforced in arbitrary ways. If everyone violates the rules at one time or another, anyone is a potential target for punishment.â€
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Trump's $16M win over '60 Minutes' edit sends chilling message to journalists everywhere
Trump's $16M win over a "60 Minutes" edit sends a chilling message to journalists everywhere. ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s Bob Corn-Revere calls it what it is: the FCC playing politics.
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As political pressure mounts, Dinah Megibow-Taylor explores whether recent institutional statements defend academic freedom — or quietly erode it.
FIREstatement on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton upholding age verification for adult content
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold Texas's age-verification law for sites featuring adult content, effectively reversing decades of Supreme Court precedent that protects the free speech rights of adults to access information without jumping over government age-verification hurdles.