Tag: free speech
How the Disney boycott beat the FCC’s censorship push
Jimmy Kimmel's censorship seemed like a done deal, but then millions acted quickly, strategically and together for a significant movement win.
MIT rejects Trump funding compact, ignites academic freedom showdown
First elite university publicly refuses White House pledge critics call “extortion,” setting up a legal, financial, and political fight over free inquiry and federal research dollars.
Jimmy Kimmel’s reinstatement shows the power of noncooperation
What we’ve seen is the power of the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, to approve mergers and how that gives the executive branch dangerous leverage over media.
Disney reverses course as Jimmy Kimmel returns after FCC threats spark...
Disney says comments were “ill-timed,” but reinstates Jimmy Kimmel following FCC threats, nationwide protests, and a celebrity-backed ACLU letter warning of government-driven censorship.
Censorship is a structural problem: Huge corporate power, not just a...
Donald Trump + Corporate Media Conglomeration = Censorship
Free speech under siege as Trump FCC forces cancellation of Kimmel
ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s show after threats from Trump’s FCC, raising alarms about corporate capitulation, censorship, and the systematic erosion of First Amendment protections.
‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society...
From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.
Trump accused of weaponizing Social Security and immigration system to target...
Critics warn of authoritarian overreach as Trump administration marks immigrants as “dead” to force deportation and targets lawful residents for protected political speech.
Trump-appointed judge rules White House cannot exclude AP over refusal to...
In a First Amendment victory, federal court blocks administration from retaliating against AP for rejecting Trump’s geographic renaming order.
US denies French scientist entry over anti-Trump text messages
Trump administration, free speech, academic freedom, border security, France, scientific research, political censorship, U.S. immigration, CBP, FBI, diplomatic relations.
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Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion
If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in Great Lakes put consumption of fish and drinking...
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