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FIREHot Topics page offers primers on today’s biggest campus rights issues
Curious about some of the hot-button issues related to campus free speech and due process but don’t know where to start?
鷡’s Hot Topics page is here to get you up to speed, featuring backgrounders on a number of ֭-related topics. Now on our site, you can find short primers on:
- Microaggressions
- Free Speech Zones
- Due Process
- Sexual Harassment
- Hate Speech
- Title IX
- Affirmative Consent
So if you need a link to send that Facebook commenter who insists there’s a hate speech exception to the First Amendment (there isn’t), or if you’re wondering whether you can legally protest outside your public campus’ “Free Speech Zone” (you can), then head over to 鷡’s Hot Topics page today to learn more.
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The global free speech recession
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鷡’s Will Creeley urges Congress to end “jawboning,” whereby officials pressure private entities to silence disfavored speech.
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FIREreached out to the over 600 academics listed in the Scholars Under Fire database who were targeted between 2020 and 2024, of whom 209 completed our survey.
They displayed anti-Trump buttons — then the sheriff alerted Secret Service
Ohio officials booted Democrats from a fair and called the Secret Service — over anti-Trump buttons. Now, they’re facing a First Amendment reckoning.