Free Speech at Risk in Universities

Just to add some extra thought to this, from different countries perspectives

• Canada’s Criminal Code restricts public incitement of hatred.
• The European Commission supports coordinated efforts against online hate speech.
• Supporters argue history shows unchecked dehumanizing speech can escalate into violence.

Counterclaim: Speech restrictions risk overreach.

• The United States protects most speech under the First Amendment.
• Critics argue vague definitions of “hate” can suppress dissent.
• Government deciding what qualifies as harmful expression may create a slippery slope.

The problem with the definition of hate speech is it is defined by the government on in this case the university, so then these governing bodies can go around and chose whatever view points go against what they think is right and classify them as hate speech. This leads to people's inability to speak up against these governing bodies because anything they say against them can be considered hate speech and then they can be put in jail for it.

I hate using this comparison but in China being critical of their leader is highly dangerous because it can be considered against the government and critical, and that is not what we want for our countries.

Free societies must protect liberty.
But they also must protect people.