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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order linking “free speech” efforts at public universities to federal grants in an effort to combat what he considers a clamp down on conservative students’ abilities to share their views.
Under the order, the schools will themselves certify whether they are protecting students’ free speech rights, which are already guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
The order requires that schools ensure they allow students to express themselves in order to receive funds from 12 federal agencies that help fund universities and colleges.
Trump administration officials have suggested that the rights of speakers on college campuses have been trampled by student protesters, and that conservatives have been unfairly targeted.
Trump, who regularly decries the media as “fake news” and calls defamation laws “a sham,” has threatened retaliatory action related to free speech issues where he says the rights of conservatives are under attack.
In signing the order at the White House on Thursday, Trump took the fight to campuses, which receive billions of dollars a year from the federal government, including more than $30 billion for research. ...
A senior U.S. administration official said schools, not the government, would attest to their compliance with the executive order.
I love it all except for that last line. Of course all schools will "attest" that they are not fucking over conservatives while continuing to fuck them over.
The excessive SJW nonsense on campuses would be going away anyway
They need to throw the badly-behaving students out of school and file a restraining order. That behavior is not a problem of the speaker; it's a problem of the admissions policies.
respected people like Jonthon Haidt and Jordan Peterson campaigning against the lack of "diversity of thought" on campuses these days.
Trump tweets because it allows him to express random thoughts without any discussion or going into anything resembling depth. Holding a press conference would require he respond to questions he can't intelligently answer. He literally thinks in 140 characters or less....
Judge ruled last year that president’s account is public forum
Kakistocracy saysJudge ruled last year that president’s account is public forum
Hmmm, if Trump's Twitter is a Public Forum...
... then how can Twitter not be...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-colleges/trump-signs-executive-free-speech-order-for-u-s-colleges-idUSKCN1R22G0?feedType=patrick.net
Biased Edge in italics. Defamation and News Presentation are about the accuracy/harm of speech, not about whether it is free or not.