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SEBRING, Fla., July 29, 2026 — In a story stranger than fiction, a Florida college fired an English professor for nothing…

Michelle Liao is a rising senior at the University of Michigan studying psychology and political science.Last summer, a former student…

EFF’s first EFFecting Change livestream was all the way back in July of 2024. Maybe you’ve caught each stream, or…

When former University of Pittsburgh student and freelance journalist Henry Bard tried to get records from his campus police department…

In 1999, a college dropout named Shawn Fanning and his friend Sean Parker released a piece of software called Napster…

Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle…

Max Friedman is a rising third-year law student at the University of Memphis.Censorship in the name of combating antisemitism has…

There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite…

This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.The internet is one of the main places where…

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that…

When Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights…

Free Speech Dispatch covers censorship trends and challenges around the world. If you want to know where free expression is under…