They say ideas will be chilled if the government tries to limit speech and behavior to that which is "politically correct."
The student leaders also raised questions about whether the university's actions were limiting free speech on campus.
Instead the government's answer is to come up with more and more laws limiting free speech.
The order was quickly rescinded after people protested, but not before questions were raised about whether the authorities had tried to limit free speech.
O'Brien required that the government and its agents pursue the "least restrictive alternative" before making any decision to limit free speech.
New technologies should not be the occasion to limit speech.
Ambiguous cases impose on university officials a duty not to limit speech recklessly.
Still, our former colleagues press proposals that would inevitably limit political speech.
There are concerns that this could limit free speech.
"Do you really want to limit speech at the time it matters most?"