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So what is a greater threat to free speech. A group of students throwing a tantrum because someone they don’t like was invited to speak? The most powerful gov
by hshdhdhj4444 1y ago
So what is a greater threat to free speech.
A group of students throwing a tantrum because someone they don’t like was invited to speak?
The most powerful government in the world using every tool it has to make the university whose speech they don’t like suffer? Tools including threatening to remove accreditation, refusing to disburse hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, threatening to end the student visas of the international students, etc.
- wrs 1y agoAlso, note that only the second of those actors is prohibited by the Constitution from infringing free speech.
- schoen 1y agoUC Berkeley is a public university, so its administration is bound by the first amendment according to the incorporation doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights#Amendment_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R... (Though maybe the actors you're referring to are students rather than the administration. It's true that students can't violate someone's first amendment rights, although they can interfere with their exercise in a way that the administration might have a legal duty to prevent.)