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FIRE’s message to VCU: Save yourself the embarrassment of explaining to a judge how the law doesn’t apply to a state university. Read more

Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called on the New York State Senate to stop blocking Twitter critics and hiding their tweets. Read more

Journalist Michael Moynihan discusses the attack on Salman Rushdie, what it means for free speech, and the history of “The Satanic Verses” controversy. Read more

Despite its promises of free speech, St. Thomas rejected the College Republicans’ request to host political commentator Michael Knowles because of his views Read more

FIRE is pleased to welcome our inaugural Senior Fellows, Nadine Strossen and Jacob Mchangama, leading experts on free expression and the First Amendment. Read more

A Scottsdale Community College student who asserted a constitutional right to be free from “disapproving” messages of his religion has lost in court. Read more

Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression kicked off a six-figure billboard campaign in South Carolina calling attention to legislative proposals that would criminalize discussion about abortion online—even across state lines. Read more

An outrageous proposal at Pennridge School District would prohibit students from sharing any written expression unrelated to school activities. Read more

Salman Rushdie is among the strongest advocates of free speech. “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game . . . Free speech is life itself.” Read more

Today, students from a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, sued California’s Clovis Community College. Read more