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Campus Free Speech blog
The Heckler's Veto on Campus and What the First Amendment Says About It When a crowd shouts down a speaker or a college cancels an event over threatened disruption, the mob wins a veto the First Amendment does not allow. The Campus Hearing Where Three Presidents Could Not Answer a Simple Question Three university presidents said calls for genocide of Jews depended on context. The answer exposed a double standard, and the cure is one consistent rule. A Snapchat Post, a Cheer Squad and the Limits of School Power Mahanoy v. B.L. (2021) held 8 to 1 that a school could not punish a teen's profane weekend post. Why that limit protects every family, conservatives included. Bias Response Teams and the Quiet Machinery of Campus Speech Policing Many colleges invite students to report each other's speech. How bias response teams work, what courts have said, and what to do if you get the email. When Comedians Avoid Campus Crowds, the Whole Culture Gets Less Funny Top comics said in 2014 and 2015 that they had stopped playing colleges, and a culture that cannot laugh at itself cannot argue with itself either. Tinker v. Des Moines and the Armbands That Protect Conservative Students Too Tinker was a Vietnam protest case, but its rule that students keep their speech rights at school also shields the pro-life shirt and the flag.