BREAKING: FIRE’s just-released 2025 College Free Speech Rankings shows that in the eleven months since Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza, free speech on college campuses has been tested and threatened in historic ways. #college #freespeech #report #breakingnews
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FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought—the most essential qualities of liberty. FIRE educates Americans about the importance of these inalienable rights, promotes a culture of respect for these rights, and provides the means to preserve them. FIRE recognizes that colleges and universities play a vital role in preserving free thought within a free society. To this end, we place a special emphasis on defending the individual rights of students and faculty members on our nation’s campuses, including freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience.
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Nonprofit
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- 1999
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- Education, Constitutional law, First Amendment law, and Higher Education
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, US
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Updates
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Meta’s Oversight Board has affirmed the social media company’s decision to leave up three Facebook posts containing the controversial slogan, “From the river to the sea," aligning with what FIRE told the board in a public comment.
Meta's Oversight Board rightly rejects outright ban on phrase, ‘From the river to the sea'
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LAWSUIT: With FIRE’s help, an Arizona mom is suing the City of Surprise, AZ., after the mayor ordered her arrest for questioning pay raise for a city official at a council meeting. In America, the last thing citizens should fear when they attend public meetings is leaving in handcuffs. When Suprise resident Rebekah Massie criticized the city attorney’s pay during a public comment period, she was interrupted, ejected, and arrested in front of her 10-year-old daughter. Surprise Mayor Skip Hall interrupted Rebekah, saying she broke a city rule prohibiting “charges or complaints against any employee of the City or members of the body.” The mayor promised to have Rebekah ejected anytime “you attack any staff member.” Rebekah’s “attack” on a staff member was simply her exercising her right to criticize the government — speech protected by the First Amendment! That’s why FIRE is helping Rebekah ensure the City of Surprise can’t keep ignoring the Constitution and silencing its citizens. https://lnkd.in/dUp-KgPv
LAWSUIT: Arizona mom sues city after arrest for criticizing government lawyer's pay
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Dream of a career defending individual liberties? Are you hard-working, principled, and passionate about free speech? Well, good news: FIRE is hiring! Check out our open positions in the link to learn more and apply today! https://lnkd.in/d9ExxJvm
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New UN cybercrime treaty headed to the General Assembly targets ‘serious’ online crime. The problem? In much of the world, free speech is a serious crime.
UN may hand authoritarian governments new weapon to silence dissent
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TAKE ACTION: Salt Lake City used vague “decorum” rules demanding “respectful” discourse to silence Jenna Martin’s critique of the city — showing how governments can use vague restrictions on public comment to stifle dissent. Tell Salt Lake City Council to throw out these vague decorum rules, not concerned citizens!
Censorship in Salt Lake City
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Legal battles between city officials and protesters ahead of the RNC and DNC conventions raised the ultimate question: Should it be this hard to exercise one’s First Amendment rights? #freespeech #protest #uselection2024
How Milwaukee and Chicago circumvented free speech at the RNC and DNC
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Two Northwestern law professors argue in the Chronicle of Higher Education that campus speech regulations are a “mess” and “a hodgepodge of sometimes-irreconcilable policies.” Exactly right! That’s why FIRE has spent decades working to reform speech codes 💪 https://lnkd.in/ep_CCr4S
Opinion | College Speech Policies Are a Mess -- and a Liability
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