Letter to the Editor: What Freedom of Speech Implies
Antonio Gimenez | Senior majoring in Journalism The legal precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court that prohibits shouting fire falsely in a crowded theater is…
Hate Speech
Breaking: Antisemitic Flyer found at Modesto Maidique Campus
Elise Gregg / Editor-in-Chief An antisemitic flyer was found on FIU’s Modesto Maidique Campus on Friday around the Ziff Educational Building. The flyer was found…
Facebook continually fails to deter hate speech
Clara Barros/Staff Writer Last Wednesday, July 18, Mark Zuckerberg found himself in the midst of a political turmoil after claiming that Facebook should not take…
College Republicans should fight against hateful rhetoric
Eduardo Alvarez/ Contributing Writer Dozens of students protested the elimination of the policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Meanwhile the GOP’s FIU branch indulged…
Students discuss hate speech and First Amendment
Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director Under the First Amendment, the rights of all Americans to express their thoughts are protected, even if the nature of those…
There are certain ways to properly combat hate speech
Throughout the years, the First Amendment, which grants freedom of speech, has lived through a number of significant events and changes since its addition to…
Free speech does not validate racist rhetoric
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer On Friday, Aug. 25, the oldest and most influential white nationalist forum in the world was shut down. The decision was…
Education: A tool against terrorism
Bombs here, killers there, hate everywhere. Baghdad, Brussels, France, Libya and the Ivory Coast are some of the countries that had been targeted with awful atrocities in these past months between the end of 2015 and the new year. Is this going to stop? Will we ever be safe again?
