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@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialThe Free Speech Center
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Non-profit and non-partisan public policy center based at Middle Tennessee State University. Our mission is to support First Amendment freedoms through education and information. freespeech.center
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialA lawyer for ABC asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network’s editorial decisions just weeks before the U.S. midterm elections.
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialNearly 12,000 bans took place in public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free-expression organization began tracking removals five years ago. tinyurl.com/43xvykrw
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialThe Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon.” tinyurl.com/57468rzj
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialThe case arose because Colorado’s new Universal Preschool Program provides funding only to preschools that agree to abide by a nondiscrimination policy. That policy forbids, among other things, denying admission because of a student’s or parent’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social"Some of the current concern may be overblown moral panic. But some of it is entirely justified," writes Bruce Lewenstein. "Still, we retain hope that science journalism will survive this economic, political and technological shakeout."
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social"How this dispute plays out will tell us not only about the Court’s thinking, but why supporters on both sides have such different visions over religion’s role – if any – in American education and public life," writes Charles J. Russo.
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialA new survey from the Freedom Forum suggests that many Americans remain afraid to freely express their views, but more say they speak freely than they have over the past two years. tinyurl.com/y6j7h58n
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialIn the latest newsletter … White House access saga … First Amendment on Supreme Court docket … revising SPJ’s ethics code … 31 religion options … and much more First Amendment and journalism news. tinyurl.com/ykh25bp2
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social“The president and his administration have continued to make clear that this ban has only one purpose: to punish reporting he doesn’t like,” said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., lead attorney for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. tinyurl.com/mwy995p4
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialCalling the case extraordinary, Iowa District Judge Scott J. Beattie said Sept. 23 that allowing the lawsuit and its “faulty” claims to proceed could have a chilling effect that “can discourage others from reporting on and debating public affairs.” tinyurl.com/4njwbjnx
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialThe White House signaled Friday night (Sept. 25) that CNN would be left off Air Force One, the latest media restriction from the administration in an ongoing dispute with First Amendment implications. tinyurl.com/ye6uus26
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social“I think we’re going to end up stronger because of this, and this tactic of just attacking the press, attacking individual journalists, is going to be discredited,” CNN's attorney said in an interview on MS NOW Thursday afternoon. “The law is just clearly on our side here.” tinyurl.com/dvsrebyn
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social“This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law,” said Theodore Boutrous Jr., attorney for the outlets, in an emailed statement. “We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action.” tinyurl.com/n3eds867
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialOn a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, “You should not be here.” tinyurl.com/3z6f8zx2
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialPresident Donald Trump showed off his new White House helicopter landing pad yesterday (Sept. 21), attempting to brush aside a First Amendment firestorm even as major television networks kept their cameras away in protest of CNN’s being banned from the grounds. tinyurl.com/yae4st6e
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social“This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,” the outlets said in a joint statement posted early Monday on X.
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social"Journalists need to stand firm and united. Those who would cave or shrug off this unprecedented campaign against liberty of the press are of no value to a democracy and were never really news organizations in the first place," writes Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center.
@freespeechcenter.bsky.social“I’m deeply relieved that the court affirmed what I knew all along: that I am permitted to speak my conscience in the United States of America, including when I criticize government officials,” Streever said.
@freespeechcenter.bsky.socialDespite U.S. adults’ broad belief in the ideal of press freedom, a new Pew Research Center study found, they’re willing to contemplate restrictions in specific circumstances. tinyurl.com/46p9hfk2