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For the , Mallard Fillmore focuses on the problem of campus speech codes. In recent months, as the Larry Summers, Ward Churchill, and Columbia MEALAC department controversies have dominated the news, I think we are beginning to reach a “tipping point” of public awareness on the problems on our campuses. With the release of a demonstrating the overwhelming ideological dominance of the left in university faculties, there is little question that Americans will increasingly set their sights on reforming the . As we have often said, ýappٷ’s goal is to create a true marketplace of ideas rather than replace one form of unsustainable indoctrination with another.
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VICTORY: Federal court halts Texas’ ‘no First Amendment after dark’ campus speech ban
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the University of Texas from enforcing a law that bans virtually all free speech on public university campuses after dark
The trouble with ‘dignity’
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, universities are navigating how to respond when community members says offensive things online. But if “dignity” becomes a rule, it stops inspiring virtue and starts enforcing conformity.
California wants to make platforms pay for offensive user posts. The First Amendment and Section 230 say otherwise.
California’s SB 771 would punish platforms for users’ speech — a clear First Amendment and Section 230 violation that would chill online expression.
Arkansas wants to jail librarians. The First Amendment won’t allow it.
Arkansas’s Act 372 would let the state jail librarians for “harmful” books. The First Amendment won’t let censorship win.