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In reply to the discussion: So any speech by anyone must be allowed an audience and center stage at a [View all]sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)1. If they've been invited by
a member of that university with the ability to book a room and invite speakers. Most universities have rules that regulate which groups may and may not form. Those groups that are allowed to form should be able to invite a speaker.
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So any speech by anyone must be allowed an audience and center stage at a [View all]
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
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Anybody? Could I form a group that promotes an agenda that is anti gay and gay marriage
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#13
What about anti gay groups, disguised as pro traditional marriage who would
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#20
You must have missed what happened when Milo Y. arrived -- $100,000 worth of physical damage
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#115
Yes, the Berkeley administration botched their response, and they're realizing that now.
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#118
Should they be allowed to book speakers BEFORE getting approval for a venue at the University?
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#104
Either anyone and everyone who could be invited must be allowed to speak
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#12
The world's most torturously mis-and over-used anti free speech metaphor.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#67
a metropolis as large as the east bay will fill a hall to see Coulter every time she wants to speak
maxsolomon
Apr 2017
#16
But the first amendment doesn't require the University to schedule a speaker for April 27 at night
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#31
Your post shows a fundamental lack of understanding regarding free speech jurisprudence.
SomethingNew
Apr 2017
#94
If they allow anyone, then they have an issue about not allowing some speakers.
onenote
Apr 2017
#60
If you don't grasp the intellectual argument here there's no reason to continue.
davsand
Apr 2017
#100
We're not dealing with *any* university, we're dealing with a state university.
X_Digger
Apr 2017
#102
People confuse the right to stand in the public square and having speech with
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#32
Not sure, if arrangements had already been made then maybe she'd be the wronged party here..
JHan
Apr 2017
#56
A University may not be the "public square" but they almost always have areas that are "designated
onenote
Apr 2017
#61
So any speech including an outline of how to exterminate all people with brown hair must
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#29
Berkeley is not silencing her. They've offered her a venue for May 2nd in the afternoon
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#34
"After all, the next speaker they decide to silence might be one of ours."
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
#85
You are under the mistaken impression that only speech in traditional public forums is protected
onenote
Apr 2017
#65
As the article points out, the First Amendment applies to designated public forums
onenote
Apr 2017
#108
Not necessarily. Still, Free Speech threads on DU are invariably depressing.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#66
Yep. The people who were arguing that blasphemy should be illegal because it might make someone mad.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#76
If they are invited. See, the thing is that by being so intolerant of right-wing
PatrickforO
Apr 2017
#70
No, but a legit univ group should be able to invite and listen to any guest speaker they wish
aikoaiko
Apr 2017
#86
There are more groups on the left than liberals; Almost anyone can be violent.
aikoaiko
Apr 2017
#99
It's simple. A state run university, hence organ of the state, cannot regulate protected speech...
X_Digger
Apr 2017
#101
I don't understand your point, for one! Nobody has a Constitutional "right" to speak in a college
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#111
The state cannot regulate speech based on content, generally. That includes state institutions.
X_Digger
Apr 2017
#119
I think Coulter and more so Milo are professional shit stirrers and have no favor in my view.
PufPuf23
Apr 2017
#106
No. I only half kiddingly say I have gone to my local college for 44 years.
fleabiscuit
Apr 2017
#110