Bad speech codes contribute to a school’s score in the rankings, and this policy is the sole reason the university earns FIRE’s worst, “red light” rating.
‘It’s too easy to define yourself by what outrages you,’ said author Salman Rushdie at the event. ‘It’s necessary for us to understand that you have to allow the speech of those you don’t like.’
We often talk about discourse in terms of whether specific ideas should be “platformed” — in college lecture halls, entertainment venues, or on social media timelines.
On June 18, psychologist Jordan Peterson and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted that YouTube removed an hour-and-a-half long conversation between them from Peterson’s channel.