How Free Speech Died On Campus

theodp writes "The WSJ catches up with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and his crusade to expose how universities have become the most authoritarian institutions in America. In Unlearning Liberty, Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth. But that idealized university no longer exists. Today, university bureaucrats suppress debate with anti-harassment policies that function as de facto speech codes. FIRE maintains a database of such policies on its website. What they share, lifelong Democrat Lukianoff says, is a view of 'harassment' so broad and so removed from its legal definition that 'literally every student on campus is already guilty.'"

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Re:Wow, don't have opinions online..

[kenorland]

Norfolk State: "The policy broadly prohibits using any university internet technology resources "to further personal views" or "religious or political causes."

If you use taxpayer funded university resources to promote religious causes, that arguably violates the establishment clause.

If you want to promote your personal views, pay for your own website or attend and pay for a private university, don't do it with tax dollars.