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Vague Anti-bullying Laws Have Unintended Negative Consequences
Read Massachusetts attorney Gregory C. Keating's op-ed in today's Boston Globe on how the "unworkably broad definition of bullying" in the state's new anti-bullying law, "while well-intended, is fraught with problems and has already led to unintended and unfortunate consequences."
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FIRE statement on President Trump’s executive order to outlaw flag burning
Flag burning is protected expressive activity under the First Amendment.
Chinese officials force censorship of Thai gallery’s art exhibit about authoritarianism (proving the exhibit’s point)
China censors Thai art show on authoritarianism, Hong Kong cites U.S. crackdowns to justify jailing Jimmy Lai, and T-shirts get people in trouble in Venezuela and Morocco
The findings against Harvard are a blueprint for a National Campus Speech Code
HHS’s Title VI findings against Harvard collapse speech and conduct into one bucket, creating a de facto national campus speech code that threatens to turn political dissent into a punishable civil rights violation.
VICTORY! 5th Circuit blocks West Texas A&M’s unconstitutional drag ban
In a victory for student expression on campus, the Fifth Circuit overruled a lower court to halt an unconstitutional ban on student drag performances at West Texas A&M University.