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I'm sorry, but the fact our president doesn't actually understand what free speech means is appalling. Free speech doesn't mean a college has to give you a pla
by tw04 10y ago
I'm sorry, but the fact our president doesn't actually understand what free speech means is appalling.
Free speech doesn't mean a college has to give you a platform from which to spew your hate speech. Ironically him threatening to defund them over this is actually a borderline violation of the college's free speech rights.
- monksy 10y agoIf they have federal funding they do. (Amongst a lot of other things that they're required to enforce)
- leoh 10y agoHate speech is not protected by the first amendment.
- koenigdavidmj 10y agoHate speech is a concept that does not exist in American law. It is not one of the exceptions to the 1A (such as obscenity or slander).
- jamesmp98 10y agoI'm halfway glad too.
- grzm 10y agoWould you elaborate as to what you mean, preferably with some examples? The US has generally been pretty liberal in protecting free speech. For example, affording the KKK protection to march in Skokie, Illinois.
- zorpner 10y agoNo, the receipt of federal funding does not require that the receiver grant a platform to all comers. That would be absurd.
- pabloski 10y agoFree speech doesn't mean guerrilla warfare either. The radical chics should learn that losing is a fact of life.
- psyc 10y agoThe college did give him a platform. The kids in ninja costumes took it away. Almost every programmer I follow on Twitter cheered and praised them while they threw bombs, lit fires, beat and pepper sprayed people. I guess programmers do see themselves as ninjas, after all.