OPINION | The idea that the First Amendment has been “weaponized” by the powerful has gained increasing traction, but look closer and the facts on the ground paint a very different picture than the breathless narratives of “weaponized” free speech.
by courts due to First Amendment concerns. In November, a federal court ordered Florida’s public universities not to enforce the law, the tentacles of which reach into university classrooms just as they reach into K-12 classrooms and private employers' trainings.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker. “Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy ‘academic freedom’ so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian.
Fortunately, there are still many prominent voices committed to both freedom and equality who recognize that these values are indispensable pillars of justice. When Stanford Law School Dean Jenny S. Martinezdenouncing students’ disruption of a talk by a conservative federal judge last month, she explicitly highlighted the importance of content and viewpoint neutrality for the weak and marginalized.
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