For example, it's striking how generative it can be to reframe this discussion away from the ideological, as Jameel Jaffer does with Eugene Volokh in this conversation: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/vie…

Join us in 1 week for a conversation about the stakes of moving public discourse onto social media and the consequences for free speech in the US and Canada, feat: Dax D'Orazio (Queen's Department of Political Studies), Emily Laidlaw (@ucalgarylaw), and Jameel Jaffer (@knightcolumbia).
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Thanks to Margaret Sullivan for this clear-eyed piece about free speech at Columbia.

The large-scale deployment of armed officers to suppress peaceful protest on college campuses around the country is a shocking development. This response to peaceful protest is an assault on free speech–and it is also deeply reckless. (1/x)

Listen to episode four of “War & Speech”: Campus Speech, Double Standards, and Discrimination with Will Creeley, wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war…

Knight Institute Condemns Widespread Deployment of Police Forces on University Campuses Nationwide:
“An assault on free speech” and “deeply reckless,” Institute says.

Full statement at the link.

knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…

On this week’s episode of “War & Speech,” Jameel Jaffer and Will Creeley of @theFIREorg discuss “cancellations” before & after 10/7, Title VI, and the difference between #freespeech law & free speech culture. Out now on all podcast platforms. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war…

The TikTok bill is unconstitutional. The First Amendment means the government can’t restrict Americans’ access to ideas, information, or media from abroad without a very good reason for it—and no such reason exists here. (1/x)

Knight Institute Calls for Urgent “Course Correction” on Response to Student Protests at Columbia University. Letter to President Shafik raises concerns about university decisions and policies relating to #freespeech on campus. Read it here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in…

Knight Institute Comments on House Adding #TikTok Bill to Foreign Aid Package. Full statement from Knight First Amendment Institute policy director Nadine Farid Johnson below & here: knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…