The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which comes into force on August 1, 2025, means universities in England now have a new duty to uphold "robust" strategies to ensure freedom of speech on ...

President Donald Trump said his administration "took the freedom of speech away" as it relates to flag burning. During an Oct. 8 roundtable discussion on Antifa, Trump referenced conservative ...

President Donald Trump talked about hobbling the First Amendment like it's a good thing on Wednesday. During the White House's so-called "antifa roundtable," the president rambled about how proud he ...

More than a year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we need a revitalization of civic virtue ...

President Donald Trump gave off-the-cuff remarks at a round-table meeting on Wednesday that included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and ...

Obscene Speech is speech that appeals to prurient interests, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Subversive Speech ...

For those who’ve been following Trump’s systematic assault on the First Amendment—which we’ve covered extensively at Techdirt—this admission is remarkable not for its content, but for its candor. Here ...

WHEREAS, intellectual freedom is foundational to a representative democracy and enshrined in the First Amendment freedoms of speech and expression, conscience and assembly; and WHEREAS, people cannot ...

In the early 20th century, American anthropologist Franz Boas argued that being free just means being fully in harmony with your culture. The Inuit with whom he had done fieldwork saw themselves as ...

The past two years we have seen protests on a number of college campuses. Most have been focused on the Israel-Hamas conflict. These protests have captured the attention of the media and politicians.