This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...
This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...
It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.
In case you didn't know, May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. To that end, the Pew Research Center has released the
USC cancelled its pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s commencement speech, raising questions about the university’s limits on free speech. So, where’s the outrage from the cancel culture crowd? MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin calls out the double standard.
Demonstrations at Columbia University and other campuses require a response that neither ignores the worst excesses nor infringes on students’ right to speak.
The Australian government has recently announced its plan to rejuvenate its contentious ‘misinformation and disinformation’ legislation, which had been shelved…What to read next: Labor’s misinformation bill: an egregious attack on free speech | Australia needs to assess security relations with Turkey | Australia does not need a policeman for a police state | Australia’s e-Safety Karen
A wave of pro-Palestinian unrest is challenging lawmakers who cemented campus free speech protections in recent years.
The University Ad Hoc Committee proposed new free speech policies. Senators shared thoughts and proposed new legislation for On Call Café services, and a debate between senators before the ASSU election.
The US House of Representatives voted on Saturday to ban the app if TikTok's owner does not cut China ties.
Andrew Schulz says he didn't believe the media's portrayal of San Francisco. Surely a major American city can't be as filthy and out of control as the updates he sees on his smart phone and elsewhere. Exaggerations often camouflage the truth, and this could be yet another example, the 'Flagrant' podcaster figured. Call it Fake News on Steroids. And then he visited the California city for himself last month as part of his 'The Life' stand-up tour. Schulz posted a clip from that performance this...
The 1981 TV drama “Skokie” did more than give Hollywood legend Danny Kaye one of his last meaty roles.The fact-based film showed the American Civil Liberties Union defending the worst free speech possible: Nazis marching in a Chicago hamlet teeming with Holocaust survivors.It’s easy to defend virtuous speech. Supporting odious speech, the kind that makes decent people wince, is more challenging.And all the more necessary.That ACLU is no more. The once fierce free-speech advocate stayed muzzled...