DON’T MESS WITH “FIREFLY”: How Sci-Fi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech

Short documentaries

Director: Ted Balaker

Length: 7 minutes

  • Best Libertarian Ideals, Short Documentary

An overprotective “nanny state” University department censors a prof who posts a cartoon from Firefly. theFIRE.org takes up the case, and an sf author tweets it to a million followers. The University wasn’t expecting the massive outcry.

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