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posted by on Sunday February 12 2017, @03:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the free-speech-for-all dept.

The fine folks over at The Tennessean bring us this interesting bit of news:

Inspired by a Breitbart News editor whose speeches have spurred protests at colleges across the country, state lawmakers on Thursday touted a bill that they said would protect free speech on Tennessee campuses.

While discussing the bill in a news conference, sponsors Rep. Martin Daniel and Sen. Joey Hensley referenced the protests against controversial conservative Milo Yiannopoulos, who is a senior editor at Breitbart. Violence erupted at a protest against a planned Yiannopoulos speech at the University of California, Berkeley, prompting officials there to cancel the speech. The lawmakers indicated that the violence had hampered the expression of conservative ideas at Berkeley. Similar issues have cropped up in Tennessee, they said.

Daniel, R-Knoxville, called his legislation "the Milo bill," and said it was "designed to implement oversight of administrators' handling of free speech issues."

Hensley, R-Hohenwald, said the bill was specifically tailored to defend students with conservative views that he said had been silenced in the past.

"We've heard stories from many students that are honestly on the conservative side that have those issues stifled in the classroom," Hensley said. "We just want to ensure our public universities allow all types of speech."

Glad to see my state getting this correct even though they can't pull their heads out of their asses about broadband competition.

[Ed. Note: The current bill has no summary on the Tennessee General Assembly site, but it is likely similar or identical to the previous year's version from the same sponsors which died in committee.]


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:03AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:03AM (#465988) Homepage

    Freedom of speech is not about Milo or any one person.

    It is about affording the constitutional rights of every person while the same people were bitching about and attempting to subvert the constitution suddenly cared about it while 2 weeks before they were attempting to subvert it as an antiquated document, and only now do they care about states' rights. and the first amendment.

    Let these Soros-funded chickshit yellow bastards BURN.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 12 2017, @05:30AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday February 12 2017, @05:30AM (#466023) Journal

    Eth...the first rule of drug dealing is: DO NOT SAMPLE THE MERCH. You're a hilarious troll, but the instant you start actually believing the shit you spew, it's game over.

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @07:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @07:17AM (#466048)

    You do realize you are describing the conservative base of the US right? If not you'd better link some sources for your wild claims.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:16AM (#466082)

      Wowee Free Speech is bad now that the other party is advocating for it! So many unprincipled partisan idiots on soylent lately.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:09PM (#466316)

      Actual Conservatives are the broad middle who like things pretty much as they are and want to preserve/conserve that.

      That's not the bunch to which you are referring.
      That bunch is NOT Conservative; they are RADICAL .
      They don't like workers having rights, they don't like women being able to vote, and they think that people of color having lesser rights--even being property--is a natural state of affairs.
      The word for those people who want the status quo ante is Reactionary.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:31PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:31PM (#466346)

        Thanks, good point. I'll call them reactionaries or extremists, more nonpartisan too!