#free-speech

#free-speech

In Tennessee, a former sheriff recently earned an $800k+ settlement after his free speech rights were infringed. Police arrested him at his home and jailed him for over a month because he posted a Charlie Kirk meme. It was a cut-and-dried case from the start, but seeing it play out this way should have served as a reminder to police departments nationwide that you can't just arrest people because they say things you don't like.

Taxpayers in Perry County, Tennessee will pay a $835,000 to 61-year-old former police officer Larry Bushart to settle his lawsuit after the county sheriff imprisoned him for 37 days just for posting a meme. The settlement was announced Wednesday.

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, concluding that the sanctions violated her right to free speech after she called for Israeli officials to be charged with war crimes. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said that the sanctions against Albanese violate her right to free speech, as they aimed to "punish" and "suppress disfavored expression" after her recommendations to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

What happened at S.C. State University this week is emblematic of what's happening at institutions across our state and country, where the far left has silenced freedom of speech and pushed its radical, anti-American agenda for far too long.

The lawsuit accuses podcaster John Dehlin of intentionally deceiving members of the church for his own benefit. The costs of defending himself against the lawsuit are sure to place enormous pressure on Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation.

The OfS attempted to impose a fine of £585,000 on the university for its policies surrounding trans and non-binary inclusion, raising concerns for universities across the country.

Freedom of expression is taken each time silence feels safer than speech, each time convenience outweighs conviction, each time we mistake the absence of punishment for the presence of freedom.

"Go ahead. Lie about me and call me names. I'm still going to be over here trying to make the country more just, more peaceful, more good and more free."

The judicial system would find that Emory failed to protect its students, to protect its staff, to protect the educational mission of the university, said philosophy professor Noelle McAfee, one of the plaintiffs.

"Of all the students who discussed Kirk's shooting in [class], none are Black except Fisher. None were brought before the School of Law Honor Council except Fisher."

Conferences like HOPE are where that community comes together to learn, connect, and push these ideals forward. EFF is proud to be at HOPE 26.

I had no choice, I had to do what I had to do. Therefore, I will not comply. By doing this, I think they are politicising librarians and that is not what we signed up for as librarians.

The goal of suppressing all protests is apparent in these principles: 'Actions taken beyond making one's thoughts heard or read... do not constitute speech and expression protected by these Principles.'