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Jun 6 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Free speech makes free people.

Today, FIRE is expanding its free speech mission beyond college campuses to protect free speech — for all Americans.
2/ For over 20 years, FIRE has led the charge defending campus free speech. But if we want to preserve democracy for tomorrow, we must mount a robust defense of free speech rights and culture today — on and off campus.

thefire.org/fire-announces…
3/ #FreeSpeechFreePeople
4/ That’s why today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is now the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
5/ FIRE’s $75 million expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy and defense focuses on three main areas of programming:

Litigation 👩‍⚖️

Public education 🧑‍🏫

Research 👨‍🔬
6/ #FIREdup
7/ We will continue our principled advocacy of on-campus rights for college students and faculty. Protecting free speech on campus is vitally important to our work — and always will be.
8/ If you’re interested in being part of FIRE’s future, keep reading.
9/ For the first time, FIRE is seeking off-campus free speech legal cases.

Americans who believe their free speech rights were violated should submit their case to FIRE at thefire.org/alarm.
10/ It’s a big job.

We have 14 open positions right now, and will continue to expand in the coming months.

Principled free speech advocates should apply at thefire.org/jobs.
11/ Join America’s free speech movement.

Become a FIRE Member today by making a donation of $25 or more at thefire.org/donate.

All new members will receive a FIRE T-shirt.
12/ Welcome to the new FIRE. This is just the beginning.

#FreeSpeechFreePeople
13/ #FIREdup? Sign up to get updates about our work — and learn how you can help us defend free speech.

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Jun 6
After an unwarranted 122-day investigation into political speech, Georgetown Law finally reinstated @ishapiro on Thursday.

Today, he resigned.
2/ RESIGNATION LETTER: “You told me when we met last week that you want me to be successful in my new role and that you will ‘have my back.’ But instead, you’ve painted a target on my back such that I could never do the job I was hired for…”

go.thefire.org/ilya-shapiro-r…
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And it punted whether it would protect future free speech by reinstating him on a technicality.
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May 4
Kentucky’s @bereacollege canceled a socialist student group’s screening of 𝑼𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 out of concern that some consider the documentary pro-Putin.

Playing it on campus, they feared, would be seen as a show of support for the Russian invasion of 🇺🇦.
2/ The student group that planned the screening denies the charge.

But it 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 matter.

Viewpoint is not a valid basis on which to cancel a student-sponsored event, regardless of controversy and current global affairs.

go.thefire.org/kentucky-colle…
3/ If you’ve been following FIRE, you’ll know this is not the first time Berea College infringed on its students’ expressive rights.

But we hope it will be the last.

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May 2
For 40 years, campus experiments to restrict “hate speech” have been an abject failure.
2/ Campus hate speech codes have:

–Done little to increase tolerance

–Ended careers of many students and professors

–Chilled discourse

–Undermined trust in academia
3/ To protect the widest array of perspectives, we should identify and restrict real harassment without conflating it with protected speech.
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Mar 25
The more details that come out about @dartmouth's decision to cancel an in-person event with conservative journalist @AndyNgo, the more confusing the story gets.

go.thefire.org/dartmouth-doub…
2/ @dartmouth cites safety concerns and a recommendation from the Hanover Police Department for the cancelation. But the Hanover Police Chief told us the department made no such recommendation.
3/ As much as @dartmouth attempts to lay blame on others, based on the information we’ve seen so far, the responsibility for unjustly canceling the event rests squarely with the Ivy League college.
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Mar 25
FIRE demands that San Diego State University allow professor J. Angelo Corlett to return to his classroom. @SDSU removed Corlett after he referenced racial epithets in a class discussion of coded language and slurs.

go.thefire.org/sds-claims-to-…
2/ SDSU leaders say they have information to justify violating Corlett’s academic freedom and ousting him from his courses. If that’s the case, let’s see it.
3/ Academic freedom is not contingent on the approval of students who may be offended by certain course content and due process is not contingent on the whim of college deans.
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Content warning: This tweet contains expression that is apparently troubling enough to warrant an investigation.

@LinfieldUniv is securing an *outside investigator* after a professor praised English majors and criticized the business school.

Here's the post.
That's it. Most colleges probably wouldn't launch an investigation for that.

But Linfield isn't most colleges...
Linfield claims faculty are "entitled to use speech to convey disagreement, agreement, inquiry, or commentary in keeping with the principles underlying constitutionally protected free expression."

(As long as outside investigators approve, I guess?)
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