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Cambridge professor's death after resignation sparking dangerous calls for media censorship, scholar warns

Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Senior Scholar Sarah McLaughlin spoke to Fox News Digital about media censorship after the ex-professor's death. A civil liberties group that advocates for free speech is cautioning against letting concerns over former Cambridge professor Jason Arday's death turn into media censorship. In an interview with Fox News Digital Thursday, Senior Scholar for Global Expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Sarah McLaughlin detailed how there has been a major push for censorship in the United Kingdom in the wake of Arday's death. "And there's a few different avenues this is coming from," she said. "There are some activist groups and nonprofits who are pushing for a government inquiry into the press and into what kind of process media outlets engaged in that led them to producing a

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