Ben Squires
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Professor is reinstated after being fired for supporting Confederate monument removals and reopening schools
Collin College is bound by the First Amendment.
Western University students appeal court decision to ignore privacy rights over Covid vaccine database
Pushing against medical databases.
An Alabama college is challenged after punishing history instructor for Facebook posts
Wallace State Community College is bound by the First Amendment.
Kansas City Art Institute doubles down on anti-free speech social media stance
Policing speech on students’ personal social media accounts.
Students of Western University in Canada are censored online for criticizing mask mandates and vax passes
The university is trying to stop dissent in its social media profiles.
Drama school tells students to report “microaggressions” on QR code system
Where technology and over-sensitive students meet.
University of Massachusetts Lowell bans online speech that could cause “offense”
Wide-reaching speech restrictions.
Professor blocked for “all men are created equal” Twitter post files First Amendment lawsuit against University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is a public research college.
Reddit bans “anti-LGBTQ+ ‘groomer’ slur”
As activists call for Twitter to follow suit.