"[SUNY] Purchase College student Gunnar Hassard was arraigned in Harrison Town Court for Aggravated Harassment in the First Degree, a class E felony, for hanging posters with Nazi symbolism in areas of the campus."
What should the culture of free speech, free expression, and ownership look like on our social media platforms?
The latest in the Brummer v. Wey (TheBlot) litigation, brought by Prof. Christopher Brummer, a former Obama nominee for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Social media can shame them and the school can punish them, but the police shouldn't intervene.
Anti-hate speech laws have gone too far.
Plus: Brazil's worrisome new president, the long-tail of the housing crisis, and Brett Kavanaugh's replacement
More than a year later, an arbitrator held the discipline was largely (though not entirely) improper.
Friday, a federal district judge issued an injunction against the ban.
Will it stop toxic behavior or just encourage more demands for censorship?
The nation that gave the world John Milton and his cry for the "liberty to utter" is now at the forefront of shutting speech down.
Bill also calls for holding forum moderators legally liable for extreme speech.
Reason's Robby Soave and Mike Riggs debate whether Mark Zuckerberg's should de-platform haters such as Alex Jones and Infowars to improve the user experience.
Silencing hate isn't the same thing as squelching it.
That's what Illinois prosecutors are trying to do by charging Timothy Trybus with hate crimes for objecting to a woman's Puerto Rican flag shirt.
The American Library Association is facing criticism for reaffirming First Amendment rights.
The social media site has a difficult time telling the difference between white nationalist ravings and the writing of Thomas Jefferson.
Nick Gillespie talks to former president of the ACLU Nadine Strossen about the difficulties and importance of free speech.
When government has the power to censor, ultimately it will look for excuses to suppress opposition.
The company's new policy is already giving it problems.
A well-intentioned new policy threatens the violent, angry music we know and love.
Court feels "menaced" by a pug.
Why all Americans should be thankful for the First Amendment
A year after fiery political protests erupted on campus, we visited to find out when students think it's OK to respond to words with violence.
The bill's backers say talking about Polish complicity in Nazi genocide is a form of group defamation.
Should the U.S. join other countries in regulating certain speech? Can people even agree on what 'hate speech' is?
The government's theory would equally criminalize insulting posts on a NRA page, or on a pro-Trump organization's page, or on a Communist Party page.
He did make the mistake of having his picture taken with Milo Yiannopoulos.
The Black Students' Organization thinks the College Republicans are peddling violent speech.
A good reason to be a free-speech absolutist
This is about punishing people the government says are disruptive, not fighting bigotry.
What exactly does it mean to treat 'online' crimes the same as those committed in person?
An ACLU critic argues that the group must forsake freedom of speech in order to save it.
That is not the law, and it shouldn't be.
"Hate speech" is not a crime, Connecticut Supreme Court reminds overzealous prosecutors.
"Hate crimes" suspected to be motivated by racial bias have dropped, but those perceived to be motivated by gender bias nearly doubled.
Germany violently enforces the law by busting into dozens of households to prevent a "climate of fear".
Also, she thinks the Kent State shootings are an argument for censorship.
The rules would apply only to videos-for now.
A Red Sox fan's bigoted comment about a singer's rendition of the national anthem prompts a police investigation.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch talk France, the government shutdown, "hate speech," and the decline of Western civilization.
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