FIRE: “2025 Sets New Record for Attempts to Silence Student Speech”

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Sean Stevens—Chief Research Advisor for Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss FIRE’s latest report, “2025 sets new record for attempts to silence student speech.” You can find the full report here: https://www.thefire.org/news/2025-sets-new-record-attempts-silence-student-speech-fire-research-finds. 4:30pm- In an announcement from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order “rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance with legitimate medical uses.” Trump emphasized to the press: “I want to emphasize that the order I am about to sign is not the legalization [of] marijuana in any way, shape, or form—and in no way sanctions its use as a recreational drug.” 4:50pm- Most attractive member of Congress: Rosa DeLaura vs AOC?! Plus, Warner Bros. implores shareholders to go with the Netflix offer over Paramount. Does this mean movie theaters will be saved? As part of the deal, Netflix has pledged to release major motion pictures in theaters.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.9	Sean Stevens is the chief research advisor for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
0:22.6	Fire.
0:23.3	2025 set a new record for attempts to silence speech.
0:28.0	Not good.
0:28.9	And he joins us now here on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT.
0:33.1	Sean, how are you today?
0:34.7	I'm good.
0:35.4	Thanks for having me on.
0:36.5	Absolutely.
0:37.4	First of all, fire is right in our town, but for those who don't know, at one point was the foundation
0:43.8	for individual rights and education.
0:46.5	You guys expanded the mission.
0:48.4	So give us the overview of what the mission is today.
0:51.3	The mission is we protect the free speech rights of all Americans. If the speech is
0:57.8	protected by the First Amendment, well defended, no questions asked. We still have a very strong
1:03.9	presence, interest, and place a lot of value on speech on college campuses and universities.
1:10.4	It's where we got our start.
1:12.2	But yeah, as you mentioned, in 2022, we expanded that to include everybody.
1:17.4	All right.
1:17.6	So 2025 was not a great year for the First Amendment.
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