A few commenters on my latest post for The Volokh Conspiracy have been riffing on the theme that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE, where I work) is only able to show a few examples of censorship on campus, and therefore it must not be that big of a problem. Here’s my erudite […]
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The Reality of College Censorship, Part 2: Speech Codes
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 31, 2012 9:45 am in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
While the public seems to fondly believe that speech codes are a thing of the past — a bygone product of the “political correctness” movement of the 1980s and 1990s — they are alive and well on the modern college campus. As I explain in Unlearning Liberty, these days, you’re unlikely to open up a student handbook and […]