Aaron Terr
@aaronterr1
Director of Public Advocacy @theFIREorg | Views are my own.
In The War On Words (out today!) Nadine Strossen & I break down today’s speech controversies—and explain how to stand up for expression without apology.
In 2020, Mayor Muriel Bowser called on the Redskins to change their name if they wanted to relocate to DC. Yesterday, President Trump threatened to block the team's new DC stadium if they didn't rebrand back to the Redskins. Different jerseys, same playbook. Both fouls.
U.S. president suing newspapers for reporting is not something we should just get used to. It's a grave threat to press freedom and everyone's free speech. 'Trump threatens to sue WSJ for story alleging racy letter to Epstein' @axios axios.com/2025/07/18/tru…
This letter to the FCC chair rightly calls out the agency's political double standard — it's investigating CBS's Harris interview but ignored Fox's editing of a Trump interview. The answer isn't to probe both. It's to stop partisan investigations of news coverage altogether.
Members of Congress wrote a letter to Musk about Grok's "MechaHitler" turn. They first demand that the posts be taken down. This is unacceptable. These are members of Congress acting in their official capacity; they have no business dictating what speech X publishes. Zero.
Ohio Northern University sent police into a law school classroom to pull out tenured professor Scott Gerber without warning or explanation. He was marched across campus, told to resign immediately, and then fired. So he did what most professors don’t: he sued.
What happens when the president sues a TV network…and the FCC just so happens to stall their parent company’s merger? A $16M settlement and a chilling precedent. A must-read by Bob Corn-Revere @thedispatch thedispatch.com/article/paramo…