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Another week, another instance of Texas censorship. Administrators forced assistant history professor Aaron George to alter his course content not…
“It’s like clockwork. War breaks out. Then come the calls for censorship,” my colleague Nico Perrino warned last week about calls…
Raeba Pradhan is a FIRE program associate for legislative and policy.On Feb. 12, a group of Maryland legislators introduced HB 1322,…
When the Trump administration demanded changes to Anthropic’s AI system and backed it up with a threat to seize the…
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…
When student journalism came under fire last year, those sparks caught the public’s attention. With the ousting of The Indiana Daily Student’s…
In the years leading up to the American Revolution, newspapers and pamphlets overflowed with essays signed “Publius,” “Brutus,” and “A…
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
We’ve said it before. We’ll say it again. Ending online anonymity is not some magical cure to “fix” whatever problems you…
Core among the rights protected by the First Amendment is the right to demonstrate. No matter what our message is,…