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We defend and promote free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture.
Gallaudet can’t compel conformity without undermining its own existing commitments to free speech.
FIRE calls on the university to rescind these restrictions and restore students’ full expressive and associational rights.
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Brotherhood and sisterhood are forced to take a backseat to bureaucracy and suppression in Greek Life at @GallaudetU.
Their new Greek Reform Guidelines impose sweeping rules that ban words like “pledge,” control student attire at events, and restrict who can become members.
This serves as a warning to other universities who have sought to punish faculty for similar comments: the law is not on your side.
Faculty don’t lose their right to speak about matters of public interest simply because they work for a public university.
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A federal court has vindicated the rights of a @USD professor who was set to be fired for social media posts about Charlie Kirk’s murder.
This decision confirms what FIRE has long said—the First Amendment protects faculty’s personal speech on matters of public concern.
ASU’s apparent restriction does the opposite, flying in the face of the First Amendment.
FIRE demands that Angelo State University clarify whether the restriction exists—and if so, scrap it immediately.
Texas’s Angelo State University reportedly has an unwritten policy that bans faculty from discussing “transgender topics,” using students’ preferred names, or displaying LGBTQ flags.
As a public university, ASU must allow faculty to teach students as they see fit.
The “Black 2 School Block Party” was open to all — just like Mizzou’s very own Black cultural programs and courses.
Free expression for all can’t mean free expression for only some. Mizzou must cut the hypocrisy and realign its commitment to the First Amendment on its campuses.
The University of Missouri doubles down on cancelling a student event for using “Black” in the name, claiming students might think it was racially exclusive.
Yet Mizzou has no issue with its own Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center or Black Studies courses.
Pot, meet kettle.
FIRE will continue to call on private institutions to stand up for their rights — no matter who is in office.
As we wrote to the Supreme Court back in Feb. 2024, when the government jawbones private platforms into silencing speech, it violates the First Amendment.
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Google should not have waited to acknowledge it was pressured by the Biden administration to block content on its platforms.
Google condemns jawboning now, but it failed to stand up for the rights of its users when it mattered.
The First Amendment protects public university faculty when they speak as citizens on matters of public concern. Faculty don’t lose their rights simply because politicians demand it.
USD’s actions violate the Constitution.
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BREAKING: A University of South Dakota professor filed a federal lawsuit today after the university moved to fire him over a Facebook post about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, following pressure from top state officials.
FIRE supports Professor Hook’s efforts to defend his First Amendment rights.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s defenders say he didn’t pressure ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. The complete timeline of events proves a different story.
✍🏻: Tyler Tone
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FIRE’s Bob Corn-Revere for @PostOpinions: FCC Chair Brendan Carr nakedly abused government power to pressure ABC into removing Jimmy Kimmel from the air for his speech. In America, the government doesn’t get to play network executive and determine who and what you watch.
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5/ Now, as ever, students, faculty, administrators, and alumni must stand firm on the First Amendment.
FIRE will be here — holding the line, and holding institutions accountable when they don’t.
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4/ Our Faculty Legal Defense Fund gives public college faculty legal help when they’re punished. We connect qualifying cases with local attorneys and cover initial costs.
If you know a professor facing punishment for their speech, contact FIRE. ⬇️
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3/ Over the past week, FIRE has already reviewed or intervened in dozens of such cases, and the number continues to grow. Faculty and students facing discipline for protected speech are not alone.
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2/ The murder of Charlie Kirk has sent a jolt through American life — especially on campus, where ideas are meant to be challenged, not assassinated.
This fraught moment may tempt censorship of protected speech, but we cannot let that happen.
The firing of Clemson University faculty members for posts about the murder of Charlie Kirk is the start of a troubling national trend.
FIRE reminds Clemson and all public universities that protected speech remains protected, even in tragedy.
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Mark your calendars—keeping these principles alive is up to all of us.
📅 November 4-6, 2026
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On Constitution Day, we honor the principles that make America strong and remember that its survival depends on us.
Introducing Soapbox: FIRE’s bold new conference to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with high-impact keynotes, timely panels, and unforgettable entertainment.
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WEBINAR: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says hate speech isn’t free speech—but the Supreme Court has declared otherwise.
Join FIRE as we unpack Bondi’s remarks, explain what the law actually says, and respond to the latest free speech news from the past week.
President Trump suggested today that media outlets are engaging in “hate speech” by being “unfair” to him and “maybe” should be prosecuted.
Trump’s statement demonstrates the inherent danger of “hate speech” laws: Those in power will always weaponize them to silence dissent.
The attorney general would be wise to read the words of the Supreme Court, which has repeatedly held that the "proudest boast" of America's free speech tradition is "freedom for the thought that we hate."
16.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Nevertheless, the attorney general says "there's free speech, and then there's hate speech," and the government will "target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
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After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the cancel culture machine has kicked into gear, with mob mentality driving firings, investigations, and political pressure.
FIRE's Adam Goldstein looks at how tragedy affects our culture of free speech. ⬇️
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What was once a marginal opinion is becoming normalized.
Violence has never been and will never be free speech. It threatens the entire foundation of democracy.
This isn’t a left or a right problem. It’s an American problem.
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The rise is happening across ideological lines. No one is immune.
Students on the left were long the most accepting of violence, but now support has grown everywhere. Acceptance among students on the right and Independents has doubled or tripled, even surpassing the left.
