Legal scholar's pocket guide to campus speech presents dozens of case studies in search of answers to what feels like an increasingly complex question: what speech can campuses regulate? insidehighered.com/news/students/…

Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley reacts to concerns of big tech taking away free speech, calling current events the "most dangerous" anti-free speech movement in history. youtube.com/watch?v=-yzyoa…

.The Washington Post spent months investigating how China intimidates and spies on its diaspora, and recent events in City of San Francisco show how the Chinese Communist Party willingly targets US citizens and residents exercising their First Amendment rights. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/…

When membership in an association is compulsory and that organization makes a political statement some members disagree with, are the First Amendment rights of the dissenting members violated? Let's find out: protect1st.org/news/ninth-cir…

Ninth Circuit blocks California law requiring social media companies to disclose content moderation policies, saying it appears to violate freedom of expression. x.com/EFF/status/183…

One need not agree with all points concerning the arrest of Telegram Messenger's CEO, nor with all opinions expressed on X by Elon Musk or others, to see the immense implications of a global crackdown on free speech. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

If a court hearing is publicly livestreamed, do viewers have the First Amendment right to record or photograph the proceeding? Public interest implications of that question were important enough to prompt amicus from Society of Professional Journalists NPPA. reuters.com/legal/governme…

Is free speech dying in Great Britain? The ever-astute Ayaan Hirsi Ali details the decline of it in Britain in a way that perfectly delineates the American distinction between incitements to violence (“fighting words”) and speech that is merely ugly: protect1st.org/news/speaking-…

.San José State University will host Georgetown University Free Speech Project this month for "Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Silicon Valley Dialogue," convening experts for discussions on challenges at the intersection of the First Amendment and technology. blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/2024/…

Justices Brandeis and Holmes authored canonical First Amendment opinions, and if colleges and universities are looking for a lodestar, reason shows why they might need both. reason.com/volokh/2024/09…

Free speech crackdowns overseas demonstrate precisely why the First Amendment is so vital: free speech should be defended even when - and especially when - we disagree with what's being said. rstreet.org/commentary/the…