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This Week in Âé¶¹´«Ã½IOS News: Reactions to 'Firefly' Censorship and SHSU 'Box Cutter' Cases
On Monday morning we reported that University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) professor James Miller has been censored twice, reported to the university's "threat assessment team," and threatened with criminal charges because of satirical postings outside his office door.
The first poster depicted a quotation from actor Nathan Fillion's character in the television series Firefly. After taking it down, the UWS Chief of Police threatened Miller with criminal charges for disorderly conduct if he posted similar content in the future. After UWS censored his second poster, which satirically stated, "Warning: Fascism," Miller came to Âé¶¹´«Ã½IOS for help.
On Wednesday, we reported that the chancellor of UWS has declared that he will not defend faculty First Amendment rights from censorship, in an email sent to all UWS faculty and staff. UWS's claim continues to be that "the posters in question constituted an implied threat of violence. That is why they were removed."
Between this and the absurd act of censorship involving a "free speech wall" and a box cutter at Sam Houston State University, Âé¶¹´«Ã½IOS news has made countless headlines this week. Here's a recap:
On the Firefly censorship:
- Nathan Fillion, star of Firefly, on Twitter
- Adam Baldwin, Fillion's co-star on Firefly, on Twitter
- Neil Gaiman, writer, producer, and director, on Twitter
- Reason.com:
- Popehat:
- Instapundit:
- The Daily Caller:
- Escapist Magazine:
- Gawker:
- A.V. Club:
- Techdirt:
- Wisconsin Law Journal:
- Popehat:
- The Chronicle of Higher Education:
- TwinCities.com:
- The Huffington Post:
- PJTV:
- JSOnline:
- UPI:
- Linking and Thinking on Education:
- Pierce County Herald:
- National Review Online:
- WEAU News 13:
- WQOW News 18:
- OpenMarket.org:
- The Blaze:
- Legal Insurrection:
On the Sam Houston State University Free Speech Wall vandalism:
- The Daily Caller:
- Fox Nation:
- The Houstonian:
- Âé¶¹´«Ã½IOS for Liberty:
- The Houstonian:
- The Houstonian:
- The Houstonian:
- First Amendment Center:
On the University of California, Berkeley "Affirmative Action Bake Sale":
- The Daily Californian:
- The Morning Call:
On the controversy over religious student groups at Vanderbilt University:
- The Tennessean:
- The New American:
On the University of Georgia's unconstitutional "free speech zone" policy:
- The Red and Black:
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