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FIRE Hot Topics page offers primers on today’s biggest campus rights issues
Curious about some of the hot-button issues related to campus free speech and due process but don’t know where to start?
FIRE’s Hot Topics page is here to get you up to speed, featuring backgrounders on a number of FIRE-related topics. Now on our site, you can find short primers on:
- Microaggressions
- Free Speech Zones
- Due Process
- Sexual Harassment
- Hate Speech
- Title IX
- Affirmative Consent
So if you need a link to send that Facebook commenter who insists there’s a hate speech exception to the First Amendment (there isn’t), or if you’re wondering whether you can legally protest outside your public campus’ “Free Speech Zone” (you can), then head over to FIRE’s Hot Topics page today to learn more.
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FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
Trump’s calls to investigate pollster put First Amendment at risk
President-elect Donald Trump called for an investigation after Des Moines Register pollster Ann Selzer predicted just days before the election that he would lose Iowa by three points.
FIRE statement on D.C. Circuit's decision to uphold TikTok ban
The First Amendment analysis in the D.C. Circuit decision is driven by a troubling deference to the government’s characterization of TikTok’s alleged threat to national security.
Want to view art at East Tennessee State? You’ll have to sign a waiver first
Eastern Tennessee State University defends controversial art exhibit but requires viewers to give up anonymity and sign waiver if they want to enter.
FLAGGED FOR REMOVAL: New Jersey resident ejected from town council meeting for displaying American flag and U.S. Constitution
Shutting down protected speech to preserve ‘decorum’ is still a First Amendment violation.