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Trust me, however much you love fire puns, FIRE loves fire puns even more.

You should submit a case; here's our submission page: http://www.thefire.org/resources/submit-a-case/

We were pretty disappointed. I wrote a blog post about it here but the tl;dr is that these cases are not equivalent to civil trials (either in terms of safeguards or repercussions) and our concerns are not hypothetical.

Do you mean Larry Summers? Here's what our president, Greg Lukianoff, had to say about the situation. Summers is now on our board of advisors.

But the more general answer is that if professors don't feel like they can freely discuss ideas without putting their jobs at risk, universities won't be able to be the "marketplaces of ideas" that the Supreme Court has said they should be.

Students, professors, and administrators have been increasingly accustomed to censorship over the past few decades, with the proliferation of speech codes. Now many students don't even know what their rights are, or they think they have a right not to be offended. I think one of the saddest trends is that more and more students are trying to censor their peers, and these administrators who don't understand the law are acquiescing to those requests for censorship.

FIRE's president, Greg Lukianoff, has more on the history of speech codes here and in his book, Unlearning Liberty.