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National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech (washingtonpost.com)
schwit1 writes with this opinion piece from Eugene Volokh, who teaches free speech law at UCLA School of Law, about the push to ban "offensive" speech and censor websites on campus. He writes: "A large coalition of advocacy groups has asked the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights to pressure colleges to (1) punish students for their speech and (2) block student access to certain Web sites — especially sites such as Yik Yak, which allow students to anonymously post their views..... Yet another example of today's Anti-Free Speech Movement for American universities — unfortunately, one that fits well into the Education Department's attitudes. Fortunately, courts have firmly rejected these kinds of calls to restrict college student speech, though the OCR and the college administrations it pressures can get away with a lot of restrictions until the lawsuits are actually brought."
No, it isn't. Libertarians don't want freedom protected, they just want the corporations and state governments to be the ones destroying it.
William F Buckley would be a bleeding heart liberal by today's standards. The era when we had rational conservatives is over.
You aren't entitled to a university spending time and money to give you a platform to spread your message.
If they do so, it's a privilege, and you should be thankful.
If they do not, you don't get to whine because something has been 'taken away from you'.
Ironically, people like you are the ones who seem to do the most whining.... grow up and start a youtube channel or something like the rest of the insane idiots who no one takes seriously.
A fool and his hard drive are soon parted.
Damn right. You would never find a conservative anti-rape group.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Fight guns with more guns. And fight cancer with cancer. Fight poverty with more poverty.
FIGHT STUPIDITY WITH MORE STUPIDITY.
You are welcome on my lawn.