Wednesday, April 12, 2017
A victory for free speech in Colorado
Free-speech activists in the US state of Colorado are celebrating after the state passed a new bill prohibiting public universities from restricting speech on campus. The Colorado Senate Bill 62 was signed into law by Colorado governor John Hickenlooper.
Previously, students at many Colorado colleges were only allowed to engage in debate and political activity on campus within designated ‘free speech zones’.
The bill was greeted with bipartisan support, and has been recognised as a model for defending free speech in public universities. It reinforces the free-speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and emphasises public universities’ obligation to safeguard those rights. This extra measure was aimed at tackling Colorado colleges’ authoritarian policies, which were often implemented in breach of the First Amendment.
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Colorado has just one public university with a ‘green-light rating’, meaning it doesn’t limit speech on campus.
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9 comments:
I hope this becomes a nationwide trend as the rest of the 49 states passes simular bills like thisand let those little liberal snowflakes with the whining high pitched voice know that the whole campus is a free speech zone and make those stupid administarors and knownothing collage professors know that as well as the stupid students that sign stupid petitions to restict free speech and ban passing out copies of the U.S. Constitution Screw your stupid little feelings
BoP,
It really would be nice if you had graduated from 2nd grade and learned what run on sentences and bad spelling do to your rants.
However, no school can or should be a "free speech zone." Even the bill recognizes that fact. You cannot have areas such as classrooms where people can protest or disrupt speakers and or other classmates under the guise of "free speech."
Schools and colleges must establish some time, place and manner restrictions in order to fulfill the purpose of the First Amendment, which is the exchange of ideas.
Anon 4:59 Your still in kintergarten class See Spot Run See Puff Run See PETA See Spot and Puff hide under house
It's commonsense so it will be protested violently until the snowflakes get their safe space back again.
Anon 4:59 I see that you believe that only the left have the right to disrupt classes under the guise of free speech. The thought that conservatives have a right to free speech must repel you given the disruption to free speech on university campuses by the left. Pull your head in you goose.
BoP,
How cute!
You still need to go back and learn more about grammar and sentence structure, but soon you too will be able to graduate from 1st grade if you work hard.
Anon 2:27,
While you seem infatuated with water fowl, you missed the point of what was said.
College campuses cannot be nor should be "free speech" zones throughout the entire campus at all times. Even a public institution has the right to put reasonable time, place and manner restrictions on speech.
A student should not have to be paying money to have a classroom or lecture disrupted.
When people claim they want "free speech" on campus, they do not understand the implications of what they are saying. Apparently in your zeal to attack someone, you failed to read and comprehend what was being said.
Don't worry Anon 4:59 - some of us understand your point.
Clearly the school has a valid interest in ensuring that lecturers are not always howled down and marches do not constantly go through lecture halls while classes are on.
However, the general principle that free speech is not confined to a specific quadrangle on campus is a good one.
Anon 7:10,
However, the general principle that free speech is not confined to a specific quadrangle on campus is a good one.
Agreed. 100% agreed. I never wanted anyone to think anything else.
It is difficult for me to think of a reason to ban or restrain speech on a college campus outside of the idea of actively interfering with the educational process.
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