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The Dark Money Behind Campus Speech Wars

July 19, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The Nation

By Daniel Moattar

July 9, 2018

In May, a new nonprofit group called Speech First sued the University of Michigan in federal court over its speech code, which it claims has a “chilling effect” on young Trump supporters.

Speech First wants the university to ban any investigation into campus harassment, bullying, and “bias-related misconduct.” It argues that these terms are defined so broadly that they restrict the free speech of campus conservatives. The university’s speech code, the group contends, belongs in “communist China.”

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