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Students sue college president who invented rules to ban conservative flyers
The First Amendment RetweetedToday,
@TheFIREorg
is suing several California administrators — in their official AND individual capacities — for engaging in viewpoint discrimination.
Trampling students' First Amendment rights should come with a cost.
@TheFIREorg
is suing several California administrators — in their official AND individual capacities — for engaging in viewpoint discrimination.
Trampling students' First Amendment rights should come with a cost.
thefire.org
Students sue college president who invented rules to ban conservative flyers
Today, students from a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, sued California’s Clovis Community College.
Students sue college president who invented rules to ban conservative flyers
Today, students from a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, sued California’s Clovis Community College.
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I was going to say "shockingly reminiscent," but DU's sarcasm meter seems to have malfunctioned this morning.
Brandeis established it in his classic concurring opinion in Whitney v. California (1927), when he wrote: “If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
Counterspeech Doctrine
Justice Louis D. Brandeis established the counterspeech doctrine in a landmark case in 1927, reasoning that "if there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." This preferred solution continues to be relevant today with concerns over false information on the internet and on social media. The Supreme Court referenced this reasoning in 2012 when the Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited false speech about military honors. (Photo, public domain)
