It is protected under the First Amendment, but it doesn’t make it right to make hateful, hurtful comments.
Topic: free speech
Free Speech is Less Safe on American Colleges
Great take by our friend George Leef. On public college and universities, the First Amendment applies, thus giving students, faculty members, and everyone else protection against official censorship or punishment for saying things that some…
Satirist Gets Yale Students to Sign Petition to Ban Free Speech
We really have no hope for our future in America, do we?
Free Speech Under Siege in America
A dangerous trend in America…will we be left with any free speech if the left-wing speech code fanatics have their way? Good take by our friend George Leef.
Satire Being Punished at University under the Guise of Title IX
Now a university in Michigan can punish students for free speech? Although the jokes and humor are not ‘clean’ by any stretch of the imagination, it is still free speech.
Iowa State Student Leaders Backtrack on Free Speech Zones, Claim They’re Advocates of Free Speech
Free speech zones are not an actual expression of free speech, but a restriction of free speech: Iowa State University’s student government considered a bill that would create a new free-speech zone on campus. They…
Hunting Ground Filmmakers think Criticism by Harvard Professors Violates Title IX
Filmmakers take issue with criticism: When Northwestern University students were offended by Prof. Laura Kipnis’s criticism of “sexual paranoia” on college campuses in an essay, they accused her of violating Title IX by creating a “hostile…
Academic Claims that Student Protests haven’t Violated Anyone’s Rights
Did this academic forget about the Missouri student journalist who was being threatened by a professor at the University of Missouri and other recent instances? Sounds like selective memory.
Law Student Chastised by Ohio State Law School Dean over Pro-Life Op-Ed
Censorship and intimidation on college campuses continue…so much for free speech and being a place for the free exchange of ideas: Ohio State University law student Madison Gesiotto has received threats over social media, was…
Jewish Student at Michigan Cleared by Ethics Probe after Criticizing Pro-Palestinian Display on Campus
A win for free speech: A student government ethics committee has ruled that student Jesse Arm was within his First Amendment rights when he called the display offensive and told his peers to take it…