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Over 450 U.S. colleges and universities , public and private, maintain some form of a reporting system aimed at policing campus speech, according to a new report from a campus free speech organization.
Speech First found that , out of 821 institutions , 454 have a system for reporting incidents of “bias” to school administrators, who would then be empowered to investigate such incidents and, in some cases, take punitive action against the offending party.
“College students emerge stronger, smarter, and more resilient when they are exposed to varying opinions, yet [bias response systems], or ‘censor squads,’ aim to silence unpopular, contrarian, and dissenting views,” Speech First executive director Cherise Trump said in a press release. “This shocking report reveals that a growing majority of universities across the country implement Stalinesque systems that suppress, shut down, or unjustly punish constitutionally protected speech, something that should happen at exactly zero American schools.”
