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Latest ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½side Chats Episode Features Colorado College
This week's podcast features Adam Kissel, director of ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½'s Individual Rights Defense Program, and Robert Shibley, ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½'s Vice President, discussing the ongoing case at Colorado College. As we mentioned in our press release and in numerous blog posts, two students at Colorado College were deemed "violent" and punished for posting a satirical flyer on campus. This episode of ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½side Chats highlights all case points and calls for Colorado College to reverse its decision and apologize to the students for not living up to the promise of free expression it guarantees for all students and faculty.
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Trump's $16M win over '60 Minutes' edit sends chilling message to journalists everywhere
Trump's $16M win over a "60 Minutes" edit sends a chilling message to journalists everywhere. ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s Bob Corn-Revere calls it what it is: the FCC playing politics.

To speak or not to speak: Universities face the Kalven question
As political pressure mounts, Dinah Megibow-Taylor explores whether recent institutional statements defend academic freedom — or quietly erode it.

FIREstatement on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton upholding age verification for adult content
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold Texas's age-verification law for sites featuring adult content, effectively reversing decades of Supreme Court precedent that protects the free speech rights of adults to access information without jumping over government age-verification hurdles.

Orchestrated silence: How one of America’s most elite music schools expelled a student for reporting harassment
Rebecca Bryant Novak earned her spot at one of the world’s top music schools. But after reporting her advisor for harassment, she says the school turned on her. Now FIREis demanding answers.