So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Ep. 112 College social media censorship
May 21, 2020
A new FIRE report finds that 77% of public colleges and universities use a blacklist of secret words to censor comments on their Facebook pages. What’s more, 87% of them block particular users on Facebook or Twitter. How do these blacklists work?...
A new FIRE report finds that 77% of public colleges and universities use a blacklist of secret words to censor comments on their Facebook pages. What’s more, 87% of them block particular users on Facebook or Twitter.
How do these blacklists work? How were they discovered? And do they violate the First Amendment?
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, host Nico Perrino is joined by the director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, Adam Steinbaugh. He is the author of “No Comment: Public Universities’ Social Media Use and the First Amendment.”
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Ep. 111 'Dear Colleague,' due process now required. Title IX rules analysis.
May 08, 2020
On Wednesday, the Department of Education its long-awaited new Title IX regulations. Over the years — and with the federal government’s prodding — Title IX has been and used to justify censorship and the denial of core due process rights for...
On Wednesday, the Department of Education published its long-awaited new Title IX regulations.
Over the years — and with the federal government’s prodding — Title IX has been twisted and used to justify censorship and the denial of core due process rights for those accused of sexual misconduct on America’s college campus. The new regulations will better protect certain free speech and due process rights long denied to students.
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, host Nico Perrino is joined by FIRE Executive Director Robert Shibley and FIRE Senior Fellow Samantha Harris for a deep-dive analysis of the new regulations and the history of Title IX abuse on campus.
Show notes:
- Podcast transcript
- New Title IX regulations text
- FIRE press release on new Title IX regulations
- Information on the April 4, 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter
- List of lawsuits filed since 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter
- Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker
- “Twisting Title IX” by Robert Shibley
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Ep. 110 The Constitution in the age of coronavirus w/ Prof. Josh Blackman
Apr 28, 2020
With much of the country under stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, what do these orders mean for the five freedoms of the First Amendment? On today’s episode of , host Nico Perrino and constitutional law expert will break it all down. Blackman is...
With much of the country under stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, what do these orders mean for the five freedoms of the First Amendment?
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, host Nico Perrino and constitutional law expert Josh Blackman will break it all down. Blackman is a professor of law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston and the author of three books, including his recently co-authored book with Professor Randy E. Barnett, “An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.”
Show notes:
- Podcast transcript
- John Adams’ second annual address to Congress, December 8, 1798
- “The Right to Protest During the Pandemic,” National Coalition Against Censorship coalition statement
- “Are Quarantine Orders Constitutional?,” by Mark Miller, Pacific Legal Foundation
- “If Liquor Stores Are Essential, Why Isn’t Church?,” by Michael W. McConnell and Max Raskin
- First Amendment News 251: Public health and the First Amendment in the age of COVID-19
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Ep. 109 Censorship pandemic
Apr 16, 2020
For authoritarian leaders across the globe, the coronavirus emergency presents an opportunity to silence critics and consolidate power. On today’s episode of , host Nico Perrino is joined by international free expression experts Jacob Mchangama and...
For authoritarian leaders across the globe, the coronavirus emergency presents an opportunity to silence critics and consolidate power.
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, host Nico Perrino is joined by international free expression experts Jacob Mchangama and Sarah McLaughlin to discuss how countries like Turkey, Hungary, Egypt, and Thailand are banning “fake news” amidst the pandemic — but, in doing so, are making the crisis worse.
Mchangama is the executive director of Justitia, a Copenhagen-based think tank focused on human rights and the rule of law. He is also the host and producer of the podcast Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech. McLaughlin is the director of Targeted Advocacy at FIRE.
Show notes:
- “Coronavirus has started a censorship pandemic” by Jacob Mchangama and Sarah McLaughlin
- Clear and Present Danger podcast: A conversation with Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management at Facebook
- Podcast: “The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history,” a lecture by John M. Barry
- “Hospitals must let doctors and nurses speak out,” an interview with Nicholas Christakis by Conor Friedersdorf
- “Responding to ‘Zoombombing’: Best practices for students and faculty” by FIRE’s Alex Morey
- FIRE statement on protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression in virtual classrooms
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Ep. 108 A history of (dis)information wars in the Soviet Union and beyond
Apr 02, 2020
How and why do authoritarian regimes seek to control information? On today’s episode of , host Nico Perrino is joined by University of Maryland Associate Professor to explore how one country, the former Soviet Union, restricted access to...
How and why do authoritarian regimes seek to control information? On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, host Nico Perrino is joined by University of Maryland Associate Professor Cynthia L. Martin to explore how one country, the former Soviet Union, restricted access to information and stifled dissent — and what changed when that regime collapsed in 1991.
Show notes:
- Podcast transcript
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
- Cato Institute lecture: Stalin’s Propaganda and Putin’s Information Wars, featuring Princeton University Professor Stephen Kotkin
- Call for Proposals: 2020 FIRE Faculty Conference
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