{"id":3914,"date":"2025-09-15T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/15\/firings-over-callous-remarks-on-kirks-killing-spark-debate-on-limits-of-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:38:10","slug":"firings-over-callous-remarks-on-kirks-killing-spark-debate-on-limits-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/15\/firings-over-callous-remarks-on-kirks-killing-spark-debate-on-limits-of-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Firings over callous remarks on Kirk&rsquo;s killing spark debate on limits of free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death, President Trump and his allies have promised consequences for people who speak callously about his killing. Inside and outside of Trump&#8217;s government, it&#8217;s led to people being fired, suspended or reprimanded. It also sparked an open debate about the limits of free speech. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Will Creeley and Jamelle Bouie.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death, President Trump and his allies have promised consequences for people who speak callously about his killing. Inside and outside of Trump&#8217;s government, it&#8217;s led to people being fired, suspended or reprimanded. It also sparked an open debate about the limits of free speech. Amna Nawaz discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}