Very interesting. I went to school at UC Berkeley in 2001 and my impression was that the school that spawned the free speech movement had in many ways morphed

Very interesting. I went to school at UC Berkeley in 2001 and my impression was that the school that spawned the free speech movement had in many ways morphed into a school that limited speech the most, much in the way the author suggests. However, while the "official" speech channels were heavily censored there was always a very active underground channel that had no censoring whatsoever. The speed of updates on the internet is making those underground channels more difficult to suppress (as people note about things like the recent protests in Iran) so the threat from powerful bureaucracies like the government and academia on the free-flow of information is likely decreasing.