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Shiloh Hendrix’s conviction can’t be squared with the First Amendment
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (308+ words) Shiloh Hendrix at a playground in a public park in Rochester, Minnesota, in April 2025. A few years ago, the Supreme Court reaffirmed a basic free speech principle: “the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to speak his mind regardless of…...
Is training AI on copyrighted materials protected by the First Amendment?
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1081+ words) In 1999, a college dropout named Shawn Fanning and his friend Sean Parker released a piece of software called Napster that let strangers swap music files over the internet. Within two years, it had roughly 80 million registered users — one of the…...
Pennsylvania shields public universities from transparency. This student wants to change that.
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (497+ words) When former University of Pittsburgh student and freelance journalist Henry Bard tried to get records from his campus police department last year, the university swiftly said no. That keeps the press and public in the dark. But a new legal…...
Don’t let California turn universities into AI gatekeepers
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (262+ words) Universities exist to advance knowledge through cutting-edge research and by training the next generation of thought leaders. Artificial intelligence is a growing part of that work. Yet a bill moving quickly through the California Assembly threatens to place political constraints…...
Los Angeles, CA: City Council Creates 'Offensive Words Ban' | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (497+ words) Los Angeles, CA: City Council Creates 'Offensive Words Ban' FIRE | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression The First Amendment does not permit the government to decide which words are acceptable for public discourse. That is particularly true during public comment…...
FIRE demands LA City Council end policy banning certain words during public comment
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (495+ words) Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger ran afoul of the LA City Council's word ban. LOS ANGELES, July 23, 2026 — The Constitution forbids the government from banning words. But the Los Angeles City Council doesn’t seem to understand. In a recent move, the council banned the…...
Censoring with a vengeance: Indecent speech in the Yiddish theater | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (245+ words) Max Friedman is a rising third-year law student at the University of Memphis. Censorship in the name of combating antisemitism has become a fact of contemporary political life. Whether through retaliation against individuals expressing protest slogans on campus, state laws…...
Hawaii is a forgotten First Amendment failure
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (324+ words) Hawaiian child circa 1910. Elyse Everest is a rising junior at Boston College from Honolulu, Hawaii, who studies international studies and transformative education. From 1896 until 1986, and over 5,000 miles from where the U.S. Constitution was written, the Hawaiian Islands were subject to one…...
The new war on political satire
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (329+ words) Writers Guild of America members protesting the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel in front of ABC Headquarters in New York City on Sept. 19, 2025. Athena Rem is a rising junior at the University of California, Los Angeles. Televangelist Jerry Falwell once confessed…...
Does MLB’s Pride Night policy violate the First Amendment? | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (255+ words) San Francisco Giants shortstop Thairo Estrada bats against the Colorado Rockies at Oracle Park on June 8, 2022. Athena Rem is a rising junior at the University of California, Los Angeles. When Bud Selig famously wrote that “baseball is a social institution,…...