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March Madness - Speech Codes Style
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Kevin Glass, Managing Editor of Townhall.com, has put together a "March Madness"-style bracket of all the schools in the NCAA men's basketball tournament this year using a combination of FIRE's own Spotlight speech code ratings and the schools' real seedings to determine the winners of each game. Who goes to the Final Four of freedom of speech? Who emerges victorious on that last Monday night? Click on over to find out.
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