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FIRE's CFN Conference a Huge Success
Last weekend, FIRE wrapped up our third annual Campus Freedom Network Conference. Approximately fifty students from across the country congregated at Bryn Mawr College outside of Philadelphia to hear from FIRE's staff and some of the leading advocates for free speech on campus. Dozens of students and community members tuned in on the CFN website and on the CFN's Ustream channel and students and staff engaged in vigorous discussion not only at the conference, but also on Twitter. FIRE looks forward to working with these bright and engaged students to advance liberty on their campuses throughout their higher education careers.
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Supreme Court case upholding age-verification for online adult content newly references 'partially protected speech,' gives it lesser First Amendment scrutiny
In FSC v. Paxton, the Court lowers First Amendment protections for adult sites, upholding Texas’ age-verification law and coining a new category — “partially protected speech.”
All that glitters is not gold: A brief history of efforts to rebrand social media censorship
Lawmakers are rebranding online speech regulations as child safety or consumer protection, but the First Amendment isn’t fooled. This piece unpacks the censorship hiding behind the spin.
Missouri governor signs legislation securing students’ rights to freely associate on campus
A new law protects campus groups’ freedom to set their own membership rules — affirming students don’t leave the First Amendment at the campus gate.
Purdue fails its own test on institutional neutrality
Purdue claimed neutrality — until a student paper challenged it. But pressuring the paper to change its name is not neutrality. It’s censorship.