FIRE
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FIRE is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between June 23, 2021 and May 19, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “After pressure from FIRE , a pro-free-speech-in-education advocacy group”; “Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE”; “FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), originally founded to protect students”. It most often appears alongside Austin, California, China.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: June 23, 2021
- Last seen: May 19, 2025
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- Austin (2 shared issues)
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- Greg Lukianoff (2 shared issues)
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- New York Times (2 shared issues)
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- Supreme Court (2 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- @msamalam (1 shared issues)
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23: Last year, Rutgers Law School instituted a requirement that all student clubs that they must hold at least one event promoting critical race theory or related topics, or else lose most of their funding. After pressure from FIRE, a pro-free-speech-in-education advocacy group, they now appear to have backed down.
Inline links: pressure from FIRE, appear to have backed down
36: I was linked to this Telegraph article after being told it was relevant to my post discussing conflicts between race-based and feminism-based social justice, and it does not disappoint: “In the wake of sex scandals that have rocked the charity, Oxfam has produced guidance which states that: 'Mainstream feminism centres on privileged white women and demands that 'bad men' be fired or imprisoned.' Accompanied by a cartoon of a crying white woman, it adds that this 'legitimises criminal punishment, harming black and other marginalised people.'”
Inline links: this Telegraph article, my post
In a recent post, I said that part of opposing cancel culture is to rigorously define it. Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, took up the challenge. His definition, first mentioned in his book Cancelling Of The American Mind, is:
Cancel Culture is the uptick, beginning around 2014 and accelerating in 2017 and after, of campaigns to get people fired, disinvited, deplatformed, or otherwise punished for speech that is — or would be — protected by First Amendment standards, and the climate of fear and conformity that has resulted from this uptick.
B3: You’re a journalist (or a blogger). You notice that the pro-pedophilia movement is being energized by a grad student at a local university who keeps publishing papers supporting it. You find this to be pretty gross. You consider writing an article about this. The article will be unbiased, accurate, and not sensationalist. It’s exactly the kind of news you usually cover, and it will get you a lot of clicks/subscriptions. But you know if you write it, thousands of people will get really angry and pressure the university to fire this grad student. Do you write the article?
35: One bright spot in the political climate: FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), originally founded to protect students from cancel culture, has done a great job pivoting to protect students from getting deported over pro-Palestine views. I am impressed with their principled stance and have donated. In related news, FIRE has partnered with Substack to defend writers, and FIRE president Greg Lukianoff has co-written an article with Dean Ball on free speech and AI regulation.
5: …and also, FIRE and Cosmos are offering fast grants (total pot $1 million, expected size per grant $1,000 - $10,000 in cash + compute) to projects on how “AI can empower open inquiry, not suppress it”.
Inline links: fast grants