SF News Judge Tosses Berkeley College Republicans' Lawsuit Against School Lost in the mercurial leadup to and catastrophic flop of Berkeley’s late September “Free Speech Week” was the footnote that two conservative student organizations have had a lawsuit against UC Berkeley arguing
SF News Albany Teens Sue School For Right To 'Like' Racist Memes In the East Bay community of Albany, four students are suing the school district over being disciplined for commenting on or ‘Liking’ images on a racist Instagram account. According to ABC 7, the
SF News Berkeley Chancellor Pens Op Ed: 'We Are Under Attack From Both Sides' UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks took to the New York Times today with an op-ed concerning both the Ann Coulter speech kerfuffle and the ongoing use of the campus as a locale for
SF News As Berkeley Squabbles Grow, Milo Yiannopoulos Promises 'Grand Comeback Tour' UC Berkeley is already going to have its hands full this week if Ann Coulter makes good on her threat to show up on April 27 regardless of the university's attempt to move
SF News Ann Coulter's Berkeley Speech Cancelled Over Safety Concerns, Pundit Insists She's Coming Anyway A planned appearance at UC Berkeley by far-right pundit and self-described "polemicist" Ann Coulter has been cancelled. Last month, Coulter was invited to speak at the university by campus Republican, with the vast
SF News Berkeley College Republicans Threatened By Graffiti Classic leftist (in)tolerance being displayed on our campus:https://t.co/7B2tF4lJRc— Berkeley Republicans (@BerkeleyCRs) April 14, 2017 Berkeley College Republicans say they're threatened by intolerance and aggression on campus, the latest
SF News Free Speech?: Milo Yiannopoulos Planned To Out Undocumented Students By Name In His Berkeley Talk One day before semi-professional provocateur and campaigner for the freedom to be a complete dick Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak at UC Berkeley on February 1, his sometime employer Breitbart published an
SF News Twitter Blocks German Access To Neo-Nazi Group's Tweets Folks worried that Twitter isn't a universal fan of free speech have some more ammunition. The company has decided to use its newish "country withheld content" policy to block access to the tweets
SF News The Golden Gate Bridge is Violating Your Right to Free Speech The Golden Gate Bridge has surprisingly strict guidelines about how groups can conduct a protest along its walkways. According to the Chronicle, as it stands small groups of less than 50 must apply
SF News Sixth Grader's Project About Harvey Milk Censored by School Embedded video from CNN Video Natalie Jones, a sixth-grader in Ramona, California, created a Powerpoint presentation about Harvey Milk's life and activism, for which she received a near-perfect score. The day before the
misc Berkeley + <i>Daily Show</i> Segment = Hee In case you missed The Daily Show last night-- not that any member of the self-respecting Bay Area intelligentsia would dare to admit missing a second of sparkling political satire -- check out
misc Electronic Frontier Foundation's 17th Birthday Bash Speaking of Boing Boing, they have word that Electronic Frontier Foundation - the "first line of defense" in our right to free speech, privacy, awesome innovation, and consumer rights - is having a
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval went into
misc National Condom Week! (How Did We Miss This?) But luckily… we forgot all of our problems, when we found out that today is the last day of National Condom Week! February 14- 21! Hurry to the PPGG website to take the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Roundup: Super Boss-Fight Mega Edition Xtreme Nintendo gave bloggers-who-think-they're-funny a present on Thursday by announcing the new name for their upcoming Revolution console (). It's going to be called "Wii." Seriously. With a "distinctive ii spelling" that's pronounced like "we,
SF News Free Havarti! The Free Republic? Yep, the Free Republic. As in one of the largest and most notorious conservative organizations in the land. As in an organization that has on its Web site a whole
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Allen Salkin For the uninitiated, Festivus was the holiday Frank Costanza cooked up in lieu of Christmas and features a Festivus Pole instead of a Christmas Tree. Families get together, stage the "Airing of Grievances"
SF News Ain't No Sunshine When She...Signs a Confidentiality Agreement Ah, yes, the City of Berkeley. You might have thought back room dealing and hiding documents and meetings from public review was just a San Francisco thing, but Berkeley has its share of
misc Bay Blogger Thursday Special Edition Okay, we all know what the internet is best at -- porn, porn, rants and porn. Sure, blogging is nice, but it doesn't really pay all that well. There was certainly a point
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
SF News East Bay Pro-Choice Doctor Targeted All of the doctor's neighbors within two or three blocks of the doctor's North Oakland home have been receiving letters accusing their neighbor of "perpetuating the American Holocaust" and "bringing the shame of