FIRE
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The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them. Source
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| Country | United States of America |
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Search ArticlesBREAKING: Federal court rules the statutes the Trump admin used in its speech-based deportation scheme are unconstitutional
August 28, 2026 FIRE challenged the two statutes the administration weaponized to try and deport Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk Decision is the first in the country to squarely rule on the constitutionality of these statutes and thus will reverberate in similar proceedings around the country Judge: ‘Stated plainly, in the United States, freedom of speech belongs to the people. It is not the government’s to take.’ SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug.
That $17B Meta settlement comes with a catch: Your online speech rights
August 28, 2026 Meta agreed on Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle lawsuits brought by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 47 states and several territories. The lawsuits, which accused the company of harming young people through the design of their speech platforms, relied on untested legal theories that faced serious First Amendment challenges.
Is Britain bringing blasphemy laws back under another name?
A Facebook meme, a protest sign, and a big mess August 26, 2026 Protestors hold Restore Britain and Union Jack flags in Trafalgar square at the Unite the Kingdom rally in London on May 16, 2026. How many times can you prosecute blasphemous speech under other laws until you effectively have a blasphemy law? This isn’t just a hypothetical. It’s a question the United Kingdom is posing again and again as police and the judiciary crack down on offensive speech about faith.
The U.S. military is at war with its own newspaper
A military paper matters most when commanders disagree August 26, 2026 In the shelter of their foxhole somewhere near Sainte-Marguerite-d'Elle, France, two GIs read the latest issue of "Stars and Stripes," June 1944. At the height of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower didn’t want the military’s independent newspaper to become a propaganda tool. He expected his subordinates to keep their “hands off” Stars and Stripes.
Massachusetts has a better approach for book challenges: due process
A complaint about a library book should start a conversation, not end one. August 25, 2026 Confiscating Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in Helsinki, Finland, May 1962. Across the country, school libraries have become a recurring front in political and cultural fights, with controversial books drawing objections from parents, activists, and public officials alike.
After censoring an anti-ICE cartoon, this school district officially enacted prior review
August 24, 2026 ICE agents in downtown Portland after the killing of Renée Good, Jan. 7, 2026. A Nebraska school district censored a student newspaper over an anti-ICE cartoon. After FIRE objected, the district adopted a new policy that gives administrators formal power to restrict student journalism before publication. The cartoon, made by Aidan McClaren, was the first and only editorial cartoon for Gretna East High School’s student newspaperlast school year.
Nebraska school district censors anti-ICE cartoon, forces prior approval on student press
August 24, 2026 ICE agents in Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 7, 2026, after the killing of Renée Good. Color adjusted. A Nebraska school district censored a student newspaper over an anti-ICE cartoon. After FIRE objected, the district adopted a new policy that gives administrators formal power to restrict student journalism before publication. The cartoon, made by Aidan McClaren, was the first and only editorial cartoon for Gretna East High School’s student newspaperlast school year.
This Michigan city threatened critics over ‘cyberbullying.’ Now it’s hiding the evidence.
Officials say it’s too ‘emotionally offensive’ August 24, 2026 Manton, Michigan, July 2022. Edited using OpenAI to improve image clarity and remove vehicles. When government officials threaten to sue and prosecute their constituents over speech, the public should get to see the evidence.
If everything’s a conspiracy, nothing’s a conspiracy
How a Reconstruction-era law built to crush the Klan, and tested against the Mafia, ended up silencing people for journalism and memes August 20, 2026 Scene from the 1928 film Me, Gangster. Douglass Mackey and Don Lemon likely agree on almost nothing.
The Jason Arday tragedy cannot justify a crackdown on the press
The conversations that are blooming around the death of Jason Arday are, in their broadest sense, not particularly new. Death is shocking, morality is messy, and we do what little we can to make sense of it when confronted with the two. Go back to any era of human history and you can likely find calls for censorship in the wake of death and disaster.