Who gets to decide where free speech ends?

Free speech feels simple until you're the one drawing the lines. In this episode of Research Matters, Cornell's Gautam Hans unpacks the messy, high-stakes reality of civil liberties in America today, from campus speech fights to the digital platforms reshaping what "free expression" even means. It's a clear-eyed look at a right everyone claims to understand and almost no one agrees on.

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