Nov 25, 2024
Woodrow Wilson or Franklin D. Roosevelt: which president was worse for free speech?
In August, FIRE posted a viral X thread, arguing that Woodrow Wilson may be America’s worst-ever president for free speech. Despite the growing recognition of Wilson’s censorship, there was a professor who wrote a recent book on...
Nov 14, 2024
Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in a culture of conformity. She was beaten and mutilated. She was told who she must marry.
Eventually, she rebelled.
“You don’t speak up at first,” she told us. “First you leave and you find a place of safety. It’s only after that experience that it occurred to me to speak up about...
Nov 1, 2024
In this live recording of “So to Speak” at the First
Amendment Lawyers Association meeting, Samir Jain, Andy Phillips,
and Benjamin Wittes discuss the legal questions surrounding free
speech and artificial intelligence.
Samir Jain is the
vice president of policy at the Center for Democracy and
Technology.
Oct 22, 2024
The FIRE team debates the proposition: Should there be
any categories of unprotected speech?
General Counsel Ronnie London and Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere go
through each category of speech falling outside First Amendment
protection to decide whether it should remain unprotected or if
it’s time to “remove an...
Oct 10, 2024
The FIRE team discusses Tim Walz’s controversial comments on hate speech and “shouting fire in a crowded theater.” We also examine California’s AI deepfake laws, the punishment of tenured professors, and mask bans.
Joining us are:
Aaron Terr, FIRE’s director of Public Advocacy;
Connor Murnane, FIRE’s...