Tag: Free speech
Federal judge rules Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum
Clay Calvert, University of Florida
A federal judge in New York has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot block people from following or viewing his...
Most panhandling laws are unconstitutional since there’s no freedom from speech
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University
Thousands of U.S. cities restrict panhandling in some way. These ordinances limit face-to-face soliciting, including interactions that occur on...
What is the online equivalent of a burning cross?
Jessie Daniels, City University of New York
White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online and off – in both physical...
New legislation may make free speech on campus less free
Neal H. Hutchens, University of Mississippi
Around the country, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech...
What was the protest group Students for a Democratic Society? Five...
Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
Editor’s note: The 2016 election brought student activism back into the spotlight. No student activist organization in U.S. history...
Can Facebook be sued for live-streaming suicides?
Shontavia Johnson, Drake University
In January, two different suicides were streamed using Facebook Live, a service that allows Facebook users to create and broadcast real-time...
Berkeley, Milo Yiannopoulos and the lessons of free speech
Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine and Howard Gillman, University of California, Irvine
Recent events at the University of California, Berkeley reflect the enormous difficulties...
Experts’ roundtable: The future of journalism in Trump’s America
Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, Bloomington ; Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon; Frank Waddell, University of Florida; Glenn Scott, Elon University, and Jennifer Glover Konfrst,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
