Free Speech & Administrative Rules; Schumer & Trum
FIRE:
Free speech on college campuses is a proud American tradition, and — on public campuses — protected by the First Amendment. President Trump’s message this morning, combined with other recent executive orders threatening punishment for protected speech, is deeply chilling. 🧵
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Everyone should be happy for @TheFIREorg’s existence, which does what ACLU long ago did: defend free speech without regard to ideology or party.
They made their name defending conservative speech from campus censorship, but here explain why attacks on Israel critics is as bad:
Fire:
Good. Government officials cannot mislabel protected speech as a “threat” to silence speech they disagree with. That’s classic censorship that the First Amendment forbids.