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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
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Repression deepens in Hong Kong with Jimmy Lai’s guilty verdict and censorship over deadly Wang Fuk Court fire
Hong Kong jails Jimmy Lai, UK prosecutors seek to reverse a free speech victory, and a new U.S. border policy could export self-censorship worldwide.
How schools still abuse ‘institutional neutrality’ to silence speech
Universities are invoking “institutional neutrality” to muzzle students and faculty. But the fix is simple: restrain administrators, not speech.
2025 sets new record for attempts to silence student speech, FIRE research finds
FIRE has documented 273 efforts this year in which students and student groups were targeted for their constitutionally protected expression.
Texas runs afoul of the First Amendment with new limits on faculty course materials
The Texas Tech University System ordered its five member-universities to comb through faculty materials to root out any of the state’s disfavored viewpoints.