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University No Longer Bans ‘Mean’ Speech After Media Backlash

Ashe Schow

Speech that is merely “mean” will no longer be banned by one northwestern university following intense media scrutiny earlier this month.

At the beginning of December, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) highlighted the University of Montana Western’s (UMW) absurd speech code policy, which banned “mean, nasty or vindictive” speech. As I wrote at the time:

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