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…the state and federal court case is whether the judge-issued TROs, or injunctions, are unconstitutional prior restraints on First Amendment guaranteed freedom of speech. Generally, even if prospective speech will…

…religion and free speech. But this time, the Court ruled only on free speech and set aside the free exercise argument that California’s pro-life pregnancy centers have been discriminated against…

…a woman?” “Inviting students to report a broad range of speech to campus authorities casts a chilling pall over free speech rights,” Adam Steinbaugh, a FIRE senior program officer, said…

…should mystify any freedom-loving person, American or not. Yet the ground has rapidly softened for it. The slogan “free speech is hate speech” has gained a lot of traction on…

…free speech commands their access to our ears and eyes. We free citizens can decide what speech and claims over foreigners have merit, or not. The solution to untrustworthy foreign…

…emerged within the Anglo-American tradition as freedom of religious speech, and religious speech has retained that special role within speech jurisprudence ever since. Today, that history means that religious speech,…

…free speech because it allows persecuted individuals and groups to disseminate their viewpoints. Not only is the speech protected, but so is the anonymity. Indeed, free speech advocates expressed alarm…

…truth contemplated by the First Amendment. Indeed, the Framers of our Constitution believed in the power of “free and fearless reasoning.” Under the free speech clause, the answer to erroneous…

…the anti-free speech zeitgeist on college campuses. President Obama’s commencement address today at Howard included plea for campus free speech pic.twitter.com/GSsLqeTKGU David Rennie (@DSORennie) May 8, 2016 The left, which…

…discrimination? It’s both. Free Speech Always Involves Discrimination Free speech always involves discrimination, including—and maybe even especially—artistic expression. Or as the Supreme Court put it: “all speech inherently involves choices…

…as sources of misinformation or disinformation, and terminates authorities that threaten free speech. Under my Free Speech Protection Act, the government will no longer be able to cloak itself in…

…had it not collected so much dust since it was published in 1956. More of us could have learned how free speech is essential to preventing mass delusion. Free expression…

…believe in free speech, just not for hate speech.” But then you don’t believe in free speech — you’re determining what you call “hate speech.” So it’s at the end…

…on free speech are based on the government telling you, through threat of lawsuit, fines, or jail time, what you may not say. But an even greater threat to free…

…Public relations campaigns in favor of free speech on technology platforms; Educational initiatives to instill a dedicated belief in free speech in both media and academia, something evidently sorely lacking…

…events. While their desire to promote free speech by stopping the heckler’s veto is admirable, the policy commits the same error speech codes do. Both limit free speech, limit freedom,…

…4, 2015 We’ve already seen numbers of part-time free expressionists – the “but” crowd – which conflates the defense of free speech, and the ability of all people to practice…

…to the death your right to say it.” Defending the right to unpopular speech, if not the speech itself, is the heart of free speech as a societal value. The…

…while justified and necessary, in the long run provides no protection for free speech. Rather, the answer will be creating a new private sector willing to stand up for free…

…stone panel, chiseled into which is the text of the First Amendment. So when the popular tourist destination together with its Newseum Institute presented winners of their Free Expression Awards…

…does; he admits it, proudly and unabashedly. Trump is signaling to the American people that he is pro-censorship and anti-free speech. Free speech is one of the most precious, inestimable…

…to free speech stemming from the government’s monitoring of the internet is further increased by our overlords’ willingness to brand true speech “misinformation, disinformation, or mal-information” and then seek to…

…Speech The third tactic of the judicial assault on free speech is to reframe speech as an “action.” In Wyoming, we saw this contortion in the case of Circuit Court…

…society is built, it also destroys the conscience of the free citizen. As Northrop Frye once wrote, “There can be no free speech in a mob: free speech is one…

…the “real” threat to free speech. “‘Free speech,’ wielded in bad faith by right-wing media, can turn into a gag to silence student protests and activism,” he says. Note the…

…freedom of speech, political freedom, and resistance to government regulation in the field of personal morality and culture—combined with advocacy of broad and ever-growing government control over the economy. Notice…

Fear of crackdown on free speech is a bipartisan thing these days. In the run-up to the 2016 election, conservatives were terrified that Hillary Clinton would ratchet up the crackdown…

It turns out free speech under “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is not so absolute. According to the new Twitter CEO, “freedom of speech” does not include “freedom of reach.”…

…freedom. Students should be free to make mistakes, but faculty should be held to a higher standard when interacting with students. Free speech can be ugly and uncivil. People and…

Almost 400 professors have signed a pact to uphold the right to free speech on their college campuses since professors Robert P. George and Cornel West, respectively of Princeton and…

…this case. We Like Free Speech, But Not Yours The oral argument quickly revealed that Phillips’ free speech claim lacked traction, with the justices demanding to know the dividing line…

…Free speech issues on college campuses like this have been cropping up steadily for the last ten years, typically targeting religious or pro-life groups. Alliance Defending Freedom started an organization…

…neuters the two-speech rule option by resetting the speech limit at midnight each day. Unfortunately for two-speech rule naysayers, this assertion has no basis in fact. First, the plain text…

…decisions violated constitutional restrictions on abridging speech. The district court issued a preliminary injunction, that the appeals court narrowed and modified but upheld, to freeze the speech policing during the…

…would likely prevail on their free speech claims that were premised on “the White House and numerous federal agencies, pressure[ing] and encourag[ing] social-media companies to suppress free speech.” Anyone who…

…with his initial commitments to restore free speech on the platform. No doubt, there’s much work to do — including a much-needed elimination and rethink of Musk’s “freedom of speech,…