State Farm Insurance on Monday got behind its spokesman, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, defending his right not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 even as another company he did endorsements for, Prevea Health, dropped him. Read More.
The Christopher Newport University scholar who recently criticized DC Comics’ decision to make Superman a bisexual isn’t taking her critics sitting down, saying she is going to “go on offense.” Read More.
The Harvard Undergraduate Council recently passed legislation that asks for a new committee to look at the free speech guidelines of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Read More.
University of Texas at Austin astronomer John Kormendy retracted a paper and paused a book about the use of hard data in the hiring and funding of professors after criticism that it harmed women and racial minorities. Read More.
Over two-thirds of adults in the United States believe “cancel culture” has “gotten out of control,” and most believe protecting free speech is more important than protecting people from speech that is offensive, according to findings from a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports. Read More.
A recent attempt by a group of self-described progressive students at Rutgers University to get Turning Point USA and Young Americans for Liberty deplatformed has failed. Read More.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, the far-left British nonprofit currently waging a campaign of pressure against Facebook to force the social media giant to clamp down further against conservative media, is backed by a shadowy Swiss investment group that is funding communist China’s bid for global dominance. Read More.
Apple Censorship, a GreatFire.org site that monitors and reports about instances of what it calls Apple’s active censorship of App Stores around the world, has come up with a new report that claims to show a clear pattern of politically-driven censorship happening globally. Read More.