Freedom IndexLegal & Courts
Legal & Courts tracks major cases, rulings, and legislative battles impacting freedom of speech and digital rights. Covering court decisions, lawsuits, and evolving laws, this category provides insights into the legal frameworks shaping expression and censorship around the world.
This week, the Federal Trade Commission released a policy statement incentivizing additional data collection of American citizens when using the internet.The…
This essay was originally published in The Dispatch on Feb. 26, 2026.“The FTC is not the speech police,” FTC Chairman…
Imagine black law students at a historically black college or university being told to take the word “black” out of…
A new analysis of U.S. government records published by The Guardian found that the vast majority of people who were…
When student journalism came under fire last year, those sparks caught the public’s attention. With the ousting of The Indiana Daily Student’s…
The United Kingdom isn’t just focused on age-gating and regulating what its citizens can see and do on the internet…
In the years leading up to the American Revolution, newspapers and pamphlets overflowed with essays signed “Publius,” “Brutus,” and “A…
A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Tuesday that the court — not the U.S. Justice Department — would conduct…
Google a campus newsroom, click the first result, and you expect to land on a student newspaper’s website. In early…
FIRE is suing Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem for strong-arming Facebook and Apple to censor…
A wave of student walkouts has washed over the country in the last month, with secondary school students leaving campus…
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…