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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.]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:13AM
A danger they themselves *allowed* to happen. The mayor basically told the police to gather up in the student union and sit there. None in the police broke ranks. They LET that riot happen. Then turned around and blamed Milo. I do not agree with him on a lot of things. But what they did to him should not be tolerated much less accepted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:56AM
You are criticizing the police for being where the crowd of protestors were and where the riot happened. [cbslocal.com]
As the gathered crowd got more agitated, masked “black bloc” activists began hurling projectiles including bricks, lit fireworks and rocks at the building and police.
Some used police barriers as battering rams to attack the doors of the venue, breaching at least one of the doors and entering the venue on the first floor.
In addition to fireworks being thrown up onto the second-floor balcony, fires were lit outside the venue, including one that engulfed a gas-powered portable floodlight.
You sound like one of those trolls whose only interest is in finding fault regardless of what actually happened.
And you don't even bother to provide evidence for your claim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @07:40AM
Nailed it
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @01:35PM
"You are criticizing the police for being where the crowd of protestors were and where the riot happened."
He's criticizing them for being right there *and doing nothing* to prevent the riot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:10PM
Is someone claiming the Mayor ordered the cops to not do their job?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:28AM
Well fuck me! Is such an ass a Milo was coming to my community, I would not just "allow" the danger to happen, I would make sure it did happen, so I would not have to listen to his gay shit! Blue lives matter, bro!