{"id":390656,"date":"2018-12-27T05:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T04:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ut-students-self-censor-because-they-are-terrified-video\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T05:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T04:11:45","slug":"ut-students-self-censor-because-they-are-terrified-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ut-students-self-censor-because-they-are-terrified-video\/","title":{"rendered":"UT students \u2018self censor\u2019 because they are \u2018terrified\u2019 (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11675\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 24, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Neily, president of the free speech nonprofit Speech First, joined Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson recently to discuss her organization\u2019s latest lawsuit, a case on which <em>Campus Reform<\/em>\u00a0 previously reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/index.cfm?ID=11640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed on Dec. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleges that the University of Texas engages in \u201cunconstitutional\u201d practices, which Neily outlined in a segment with Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe allege that the University of Texas has four unconstitutional policies on the books,\u201d Neily told Carlson. \u201cThey have a verbal harassment policy, a campus climate response team, a bias response tea, as you said, an acceptable use policy, which governs all internet and digital use on the campus, another residence hall manual, and all of those policies violate students\u2019 First and Fourteenth Amendment rights because students are terrified to express their opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they don\u2019t know what they can be in trouble for. These policies are written so broad[ly] with such bizarre vague terms that students, out of an abundance of caution, just self-censor because they\u2019re terrified,\u201d Neily added.<\/p>\n<p><center><span class=\"fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvi fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9va4qJPukcg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/center>Neily told Carlson that the terms included in the policy are \u201cvery vague,\u201d which means that \u201cit\u2019s definitely in the eye of the beholder\u201d as to what is acceptable and what is not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy failing to define highly subjective terms such as \u2018offensive,\u2019 \u2018biased,\u2019 \u2018uncivil,\u2019 and \u2018rude,\u2019 the University of Texas has given itself broad discretion to determine which speech \u2013 and whose speech \u2013 violates their policies,\u201d Neily said in a press release the day her organization filed the lawsuit. \u201cUnfortunately, this fails to pass Constitutional muster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UT-Austin spokesman J.B. Bird told <em>Campus Reform<\/em> that \u201cthe university\u2019s policies vigorously protect students\u2019 First Amendment rights\u201d and that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/free-speech-advocate-ut-students-self-censor-because-they-are-terrified-video.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformDecember 24, 2018 Nicole Neily, president of the free speech nonprofit Speech First, joined Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson recently to discuss her organization\u2019s latest lawsuit, a case on which Campus Reform\u00a0 previously reported. The lawsuit, filed on Dec. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleges that the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}