Questions remain after MIT asserts it canceled Pompeo’s speech due to COVID-19 restrictions

MIT asserts that COVID-19 restrictions limiting the size of events and the presence of guests necessitated the decision to cancel a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2020.

FIRE investigates allegations MIT canceled Mike Pompeo speech about China

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Administrators Disinvite Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Allegedly for Criticism of China

Censorship in India exposes the gap between ‘free speech’ and the law

Modi's government has suppressed the release of a BBC documentary chronicling his role in the country's 2002 religious riots that resulted in over a thousand deaths.

Lesson: History of Free Speech Speech

University of Arizona faculty demand fair grievance committee elections after admin caught removing ‘problematic’ professors from ballot

FIRE expressed concern about potential administrative interference when selecting who could appear on the ballot. We were right.

Hamline Faculty vote 71-12 to urge president to step down after academic freedom scandal

Faculty at Hamline University voted Monday to ask President Fayneese Miller to step down after the president’s failure to support art history instructor Erika López Prater’s academic freedom rights.

Report: Stanford student may need to ‘take accountability,’ ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention, but that’s what’s reportedly happening at Stanford University after a photo of a student reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf” circulated on campus last Friday.

Stanford University: Student Reported for Reading Adolf Hilter’s Autobiography, “Mein Kampf”

Stanford student pulled into a Protected Identity Harm resolution process after being photographed reading “Mein Kampf.”

VICTORY: Harvard dean relents, will offer fellowship to human rights leader

Two weeks after a Harvard dean blocked a fellowship offer to former head of Human Rights Watch Ken Roth — purportedly due to Roth’s criticism of Israel — the dean announced that the initial decision was an “error.”