American University Student Government Launches Campaign for Mandatory Trigger Warnings
'Without trigger warnings, students who have endured trauma... can be excluded for the classroom.'
'Without trigger warnings, students who have endured trauma... can be excluded for the classroom.'
When universities give this much power to the always-offended, they make it impossible to have a dialogue about anything.
But UC's president has some blind spots in her pro-free speech stance.
Why cops get away with criminal behavior, how the Internet is getting boring, and why a Trump presidency isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Lawmakers attempt to tell online database what information it's allowed to publish.
But the university is still going to watch out for bias incidents
Americans must resist the delusional embrace of E.U.-style "hate speech" rules.
Remove the Libertarian and there goes fiscal sanity, federalism, and free speech.
This week has seen the arrest of one creepy clown and one child who intended to fend off creepy clowns with a knife if necessary.
Discussion between leftists and YAF conservatives was uncomfortable, angry, and necessary.
Prior restraint keeps blueprints off the Internet.
"There is freedom of the press," observed a puzzled paramedic who witnessed the arrest.
Students are prohibited from talking about their suicidal thoughts with others.
The precedent-setting case could have major implications for all sorts of online publishers.
Why America should never join the rest of the world in enacting hate speech bans
Chilled speech isn't like chilled vodka; it sends people out the door quicker than you might think. [UPDATE: Reynolds has been un-suspended.]
It's speech-but is it 'expressive' speech?
Anthony Novak's parody of the Parma Police Department's Facebook page prompted a felony prosecution.
Trick question-it was both of them.
Report states "CUNY cannot punish" pro-Palestinian group for their politics, but "can still condemn" anti-Semitism.
'You've got to take the hat off or I'm going to write to the president of the university...'
Think safe spaces aren't a problem? You might change your mind after watching these students shout at Nicholas Christakis.
In case in which the government and the courts rejected the First Amendment.
Constitutional rights threatened by the legal storms over global warming
James O'Keefe video adds nothing to the campus free speech debate
'Dicks out for Harambe' is okay. Probably.
The NAACP just won a years-long First-Amendment fight with the city of Philadelphia.
'Any negative remarks regarding 'Harambe' will be seen as a direct attack to our campus's African American community.'
"The real threat to free inquiry isn't students, but that same market imperative that First Amendment defenders claim to hold dear." Wrong!
'I will lose credibility with a number of film and Women/Gender studies colleagues.'
Gonzaga University hires the controversial former Mizzou communications professor.
In line with the University of Chicago, Claremont McKenna College describes free speech as 'foundational.'
Hate speech should result in 'consequences, repercussions, whatever you want to call it,' says student government.
We wouldn't want to expose students to contrary ideas.
Drexel University, among other schools, seems to require trigger warnings when it comes to sex and gender.
Competitive Enterprise Institute sues NYAG Eric Schneiderman for a little Freedom of Information
"If free speech is so great, why are they just giving it away for free?"
Uncomfortable learning under threat.
Freedom of religion is supposedly guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, but there are many exceptions.
The New Republic's Jeet Heer interprets Dean Ellison's comments-wrongly, I suspect.
Let's give Dean of Students John Ellison a round of applause.
The French government has long tried to mandate correct thinking and secularism by curbing free expression.
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