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Last Week in FIRE News
In case you missed it last Thursday night, John Stossel hosted "Free Speech ... and Its Enemies" on Stossel, his program on the Fox Business Network.
Here's a clip of Harvey from the show:
Be sure to visit the Stossel show page for more clips from the show. Here's a recap of other FIRE issues that made headlines last week:
- The New York Times: Some Students Grumble About Higher One's Debit Card Fees
- The Daily Caller: Sen. Leahy removes potential threat to due process from Violence Against Women Act
- National Association of Scholars Blog: FIRE: Sen. Leahy Pulls OCR Standards From VAWA Re-Authorization
- The Brown Daily Herald: Rosenbloom '13: A renewed commitment to individual rights
- The Badger Herald: Speaker: Speech codes give institutions power to determine right, wrong
- The Houstonian: SHSU Social media policy scrapped
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.

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.

Extortion in plain sight
A baseless lawsuit, FCC strong-arming, an $8 billion merger — and free speech hanging in the balance. Robert Corn-Revere exposes the political pressure campaign that forced CBS to settle a case that never should’ve been filed.