Tag: Controversial Rhetoric

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Statement: Tackling Transnational Repression – Index on Censorship

More than four decades after Bulgarian dissident and writer Georgi Markov was assassinated in London, governments and their proxies continue to reach across borders...

Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University: Newsletter, 3 September 2026

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and...

Meta reaches landmark $18 billion settlement with states in trial over teen social media addiction

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Meta agreed yesterday (Aug. 26) to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and...

New FIRE study finds record low number of restrictive campus speech codes

Home » News » New FIRE study finds record low number of restrictive campus speech codes PHILADELPHIA — U.S. colleges are increasingly eliminating or narrowing...

Appeals court says fishermen’s claim in lobster-defamation suit raises First Amendment questions

Home » News » Appeals court says fishermen’s claim in lobster-defamation suit raises First Amendment questions SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A federal appeals court signaled...

At Citizens’ Impeachment Symposium, Suparna Reddy Warns Trump’s Assault on Free Speech Threatens Democracy

Free Speech For People Senior Counsel Suparna Reddy addressed Ralph Nader’s Impeachment Symposium on July 22, arguing that President Trump’s assault on First Amendment...

Speechless in Knoxville: The cost to taxpayers of the University of Tennessee’s constitutional ignorance

How fitting it was that Tamar Shirinian landed on the happy side of a nearly $2 million legal settlement just as the country was celebrating its...

Trump returns to correspondents’ dinner for rambling, insult-filled speech 3 months after shooting

President Donald Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night (July 24), delivering a rambling, hour-long speech that praised some...

Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 NewYork Times reporters, admitting legal errors

NEW YORK (AP) — Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the government today (July 23) grudgingly withdrew subpoenas that would have...

How America’s newspapers lost their voice

Hazel Brannon Smith was almost certainly the most unpopular woman in Mississippi when she wrote an editorial in 1963 lambasting the racist White Citizens Councils in...