Protecting the Protectors
By Jesse Singal - Jan 13th, 2009 at 11:26 amThis Los Angeles Times column on student journalism is worth checking out. Most notable is a new state law that “prohibits administrators from retaliating against…
Posts Tagged ‘free speech’
We Don’t Need Laws Against Hate Speech
By Jesse Singal - Jan 7th, 2009 at 5:05 pmI’ve argued before that laws restricting certain types of offensive speech are a bad idea, and I think this story out of Boston is a…
Won’t Somebody Think of Little Adolf Hitler Campbell?
By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:28 amCause: You name your kid Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Effect: You might have trouble getting a bakery to inscribe the name on a birthday cake.
Deborah…
We’re All Offended
By Jesse Singal - Dec 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pmI don’t often disagree with Russ, but I do in this case. Discussing a rather stridently worded pro-atheism sign placed outside the Washington Legislative Building…
Analogy Fail
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 4th, 2008 at 10:49 amIn First Amendment news, the Supreme Court is preparing to consider a case which will decide whether government (at all levels) is required to permit…
Teenage Boy Incarcerated for Writing About Interests of Teenage Boys
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 17th, 2008 at 2:22 pmVia Boing Boing, this is about as disturbing as an actual zombie attack:
Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding.…
UPDATE: UTexas Folds, Embraces Free Speech
By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pmEarlier today, I wrote about how the University of Texas had threatened two students with eviction from their dorm room and a block on their…
UTexas Threatens to Evict Students for Political Signs
By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 9th, 2008 at 2:19 pmTwo students at the University of Texas – Austin are being threatened with eviction from the dorms, and even with being barred from registering for…
Campus Beat: Power Outages, Subterranean Tunnels, and Banned Books
By Emily Rutherford - Sep 8th, 2008 at 10:08 amWell, I finally started my freshman year of college this past weekend, and it’s been a surreal experience. Now I almost feel like I can…
Why We Need to Be Able to Bash Religion
By Jesse Singal - Aug 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pmI meant to blog about this last week but didn’t have a chance. Everyone should read Johann Hari’s piece in last Thursday’s Independent. Hari starts…
Onward, Christian Soldier
By Kay Steiger - Aug 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pmVia Inside Higher Ed, the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled (pdf) yesterday that Temple Univesity’s sexual harassment policy, which was replaced…
Internet Censorship: Subtle, Non-Governmental, and Totally Legal
By Masoud Shafaee - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 pmA new trend is emerging in which Internet service providers (ISPs) and other network operators are taking voluntary measures to enforce copyright laws and combat…
George Carlin’s Wonderful, Important Offensiveness
By Jesse Singal - Jun 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 amGeorge Carlin has died at 71, and I want to do that blogger thing where I provide my unsolicited opinion on the matter. Carlin had…
When Are Stereotypes “All in Good Fun”?
By Jessica Hillyard - Jun 16th, 2008 at 9:00 amReading Jesse’s earlier post about freedom of speech and Kwame’s take on Fox News’ “baby mama” flap, I was reminded of a very moving Disgrasian…
Wait, We’re Still Arguing About Free Speech?
By Jesse Singal - Jun 12th, 2008 at 7:00 pm(Courtesy flickr photostream: little tramp)
Everyone should check out this article from yesterday’s New York Times on the difference between the United States’ free-speech laws…
