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This is a topic I address from time to time, but it seems a new post is needed now because of various nonsense that ' s going on. First, let me make one thing perfectly clear, as a man we would all like to forget used to say: free speech and academic freedom are not the same. Legally, the only meaning of Free Speech ™ is the First Amendment, as interpreted by the courts. Originally it applied only to the federal government, but the 14th Amendment extended the protections of the Bill of Rights to the States, so it now applies to all government entities within the United States, and that includes your small tow n Board of Selectmen and yes, public colleges and universities. (However, the courts have ruled that the free speech rights of public elementary and high school students are restricted.)The First Amendmentdoes not apply to any non-governmental entity, including private employers, newspaper publishers and broadcast news producers, or private universities.  There may be specific laws limiting how employers can restrict speech in the workplace -- for example, you can complain about sexual or racial harassment and it ' s illegal for the employer to retaliate, not that they don ' t do it anyway. But if you call your boss a poopyhead, he can prove you right by firing you. However, the government can indeed make laws restricting freedom of speech, and there are a lot of them, because there are a whole lot of crimes which are implemented by means of talking and writi...
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