Archive for December 2023
Why university presidents find it hard to punish advocating genocide − college free speech codes are both more and less protective than the First Amendment | The Conversation
If a student were to walk off the Harvard campus and onto a street in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and argue for the genocide of Jews, the U.S. Constitution would bar prosecuting her for hate speech. If the same student left her perch on the sidewalk and returned to the Harvard campus to continue…
Read MoreSupreme Court to consider giving First Amendment protections to social media posts | The Conversation
The First Amendment does not protect messages posted on social media platforms. The companies that own the platforms can – and do – remove, promote or limit the distribution of any posts according to corporate policies. But all that might soon change. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear five cases during this current term, which ends in…
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