Both professional provocateur Ann Coulter and an irreverent student publication called The Koala have seen their unpopular speech shut down by the supposedly “viewpoint neutral” actions of public universities in California.
In a series of legal maneuvers, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego are attempting to blur the lines between viewpoint-neutral and viewpoint-discriminatory in ways that, if allowed to stand, will give colleges and universities much greater leeway to suppress speech they don’t like, warns Samantha Harris.