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UC Berkeley Charges Young America’s Foundation $15,000 For ‘Security’ At Ben Shapiro Speech

Emily Zanotti

Free speech at the University of California Berkeley isn’t free. In fact, it has a price tag of more than $15,000.

Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro is scheduled to deliver a talk at the University in September, but before the school would allow our fearless leader to even step foot on Berkeley’s campus, UC Berkeley’s college Republicans had to agree to pay $15,738 for what the school is calling “basic security costs” — costs that will be paid by Young America’s Foundation.

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