FIRE agrees with the Court’s decision to hear the case, which raises important questions about the constitutional limits on governmental attempts to coerce private platforms into restricting speech.
Bad speech codes contribute to a school’s score in the rankings, and this policy is the sole reason the university earns FIRE’s worst, “red light” rating.
‘It’s too easy to define yourself by what outrages you,’ said author Salman Rushdie at the event. ‘It’s necessary for us to understand that you have to allow the speech of those you don’t like.’