Geoffrey MillerVerified account

This is really good news. As a professor and member of @HdxAcademy , I'm confident that the _only_ thing that will get most public universities to support free speech is the threat of losing federal funding if they don't.

But they do support free speech. What is the actual aim? Force student governments to invite people that the student body hates to campus? Doesn't make sense Reads to me like "Tell students lies from right wing hucksters and force them to listen or don't research facts anymore."

I mean I looked at the first page and I see someone screwing up and apologizing, some fairly reasonable PR stuff, and one seemingly actually problematic thing re: student newspaper advisor being removed from that post after bad stories in the paper.

A number of these seem like freedom of association and being polite, not free speech violations. Out of tenish things on the front page no more than two are really problematic.

The only totally clear cut violation on that first page, covering over two months of cases, would be Trump admins increased surveillance of Chinese students.

Also, if the best you can do is a few dozen cases a year, most end with things being deemed mistakes or ending without any long term consequences from an organization dedicated to rooting out the evils of free speech violations on campus...

I find it very hard to take seriously that free speech is in any meaningful way under threat on campus. These read like exceptions to the general order of things that, because some folks stare at only these become the rule in their minds. They're not.