Campus Censors

Student speech was frequently targeted:

The study was conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and analyzed efforts to censor students in public universities who engage in various levels of “expressive activity” protected by the First Amendment. The organization found 1,014 students and student groups were targeted or the recipients of punishment by the school administration or some type of student government for exercising their protected speech between 2020 and 2024, according to the Fire. Some 63% of the students and groups targeted ended up receiving some type of administrative punishment. The Worst Punishments? Some of the worst punishments included some 317 students and groups who were directly censored, 72 who were suspended, 55 who “separated from the institution or its funding,” and a further 19 who “were unenrolled under ambiguous circumstances.” .... “This is unacceptable coming from people whose job it is to serve college students and ensure that their rights are protected,” said FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens. “Their job should be to protect students’ free speech rights, not torpedo them.”

Unfortunately that seems to be what they do now...