While the government can’t do a lot of things well, one primary task it must improve upon is securing inherent rights. Unfortunately, many public universities across this nation are finding it easier to restrict speech, while empowering mobs to shout down any dissent from woke-minded narratives. One of the latest examples of the attack on...
Freedom requires us to be grown-ups, to settle for living in a society in which some people just aren’t going to do what we say or believe what we believe.
The Lee County School Board voted unanimously to take no action against Republican board member Sherry-Lynn Womack after board attorney Jimmy Love found she violated no board policies by attending the Trump Rally in Washington, D.C., last month. Womack was cleared after a long school board meeting Tuesday, Feb. 9. As reported by the News...
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, has introduced legislation making it easier for consumers to sue big tech companies such as Facebook or Twitter for showing overt political bias. To do so, Hawley wants to remove automatic protections tech companies have under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and instead force them to...
UNC Asheville is right to defend free speech amid national criticism of Tamika Mallory, the controversial national co-chair of the Women’s March who will speak on the campus in honor of Martin Luther King, says a leading First Amendment lawyer and activist. Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, praised...
Last summer, Google fired a software engineer named James Damore for posting a controversial memo on an in-house message board. This week, Damore and another former Google employee filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and “all Google employees discriminated against … due to their perceived conservative political views … their male gender …...
RALEIGH — North Carolina is a national front-runner in protecting campus speech rights, a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education shows. FIRE, a nonprofit research and legal organization, examines more than 450 public and private universities each year. Schools are rated based on the constitutionality of their speech policies. Red-light schools have...
The University of North Carolina’s governing body allows politics to seep into its decision making — a bad habit, Board of Governors chairman Lou Bissette says. It’s always been a challenge for board members to balance freedom and accountability, but today that challenge is greater than ever, he wrote in a recent column for the...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — When it comes to disputes about free speech, “snowflakes” occupy both sides of the aisle. Once sacred ground for conservatives, protected without attention to ideology or association, free speech and the First Amendment are under attack from all sides, said Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education....
RALEIGH — North Carolina has a new security detail to ensure public university campuses stay true to the First Amendment. House Bill 527, Restore/Preserve Campus Free Speech, became state law Monday. The bill — an object of some criticism during the 2017 legislative session — was passed and sent to Gov. Roy Cooper on...
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 738: The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a North Carolina law that banned registered sex offenders from using social media sites such as Facebook. Jon Guze, John Locke Foundation director of legal studies, discusses the reversal of the state Supreme Court ruling that had upheld North Carolina’s law....
