Free Speech

A Columbia High School teacher’s resignation sparked a flurry of public comments at a school board meeting last week.

University officials have, so far, declined to comment on what some of the phrases in the letter mean.

A Columbia, Illinois, teacher's alleged social media posts sparked a flurry of public comments at the school's board meeting this week.

“The sign is down,” Clinton County Board Chairman Brad Knolhoff said Tuesday afternoon. “My understanding from Lamar [Advertising] is that it’s down, and it’s not going back up. I hope they stand by that.”

A billboard promoting the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, has been put up near a high school in Clinton County in southwest Illinois, about 50 miles east of St. Louis.

While the First Amendment requires the government to not discriminate against speech based on viewpoint, there can be rules imposed on the time, place and manner in which speech is shared.

The GOP official sent a letter demanding documents from the Washington, D.C.-based, left-leaning media watchdog group.

Some observers of the Missouri vs. Biden case have said it could make it more difficult for governmental officials to combat false information on social media.

Cathy Kuhlmeier fought censorship at her Hazelwood high school in 1983 and lost. Decades later, it’s a battle she’s still fighting.

The ability to speak freely in 2021 is complicated in ways the framers of the U.S. Constitution never envisioned. In this episode, we discuss how the First Amendment applies in this brave new world and whether unpopular speech — be it a dissenting opinion, a false claim or outright hate speech — deserves protection not just from the government, but tech giants like Twitter, Facebook and Google.