The principle of robust and open debate does not seem to apply when it comes to demonstrations about Gaza. University chiefs are terrified—but they mu
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said there is “declining” support for free speech on college campuses as pro-Palestine protests take place at universities across the country. As part of a commencement address he gave at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic Ohio college, Alito said support for the freedom of speech is “declining dangerously.”
In 1989, then-Southwest Texas State University (SWT) sent a warning to the Hays County Guardian: Its student employees would no longer be allowed to hand out copies of the free local newspaper on campus. The publisher of the paper was something of a firebrand. Two years later, he’d be arrested for a demonstration in favor […]
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The House of Representatives voted to make the anti-Israel slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” illegal at colleges.
The Hunger Free Campus Grant program was established to help fight hunger on Minnesota college campuses. Eligible colleges and universities may apply by May 23.
It is ironic that the college anti-Israel protesters feel they have a right to protest and illegally occupy land they do not own.
An Australian federal judge has swooped in to defend free speech by siding with Elon Musk in the tech billionaire’s latest spat with Australia’s Ministry of Truth. On May 13, Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett blocked the application for the extension of an injunction issued by Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant. The injunction ordered X to censor a video depicting an Australian Bishop being stabbed while delivering Mass in Sydney. It is expected that the Justice will...
An Australian federal judge has swooped in to defend free speech by siding with Elon Musk in the tech billionaire’s latest spat with Australia’s Ministry of Truth. On May 13, Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett blocked the application for the extension of an injunction issued by Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant. The injunction ordered X to censor a video depicting an Australian Bishop being stabbed while delivering Mass in Sydney. It is expected that the Justice will...
“Politics,” as the harsh, albeit successful German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck claimed, “is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.” To that should be added the stark awareness of being prudent, gingerly wise, appropriately cautious. Mind how you go in avoiding any foolishness on the way. Going after the motley More
The eSafety Commissioner has criticised an “illusory” claim by Elon Musk’s X that the social media platform’s refusal to take down clips of a Sydney bishop being violently stabbed was in the name of free speech. The internet watchdog has sued X Corporation in the Federal Court after clips of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being […]