Massive Violent Anti-Milo Protests at UC Berkeley

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On principle, Milo should be allowed to talk because free speech wasn't designed to protect speech that you want to hear; if it were, then we wouldn't need the law because no one is gonna suppress speech that they like to hear. It was designed to protect ugly, hateful, contradictory speech that you don't want to hear.

HOWEVER the Heckler's Veto has been recognized by the Supreme Court many times for good reason and I believe it applies well here. The Black Bloc riots on Berkeley started for the express purpose of stopping Milo and had ascended to violence before he even took the stage. The university was acting in the name of safety in response to direct threat of a reacting party's violence and had every right to stop Milo. If you read Berkeley's press release it is clear that their attention was NOT to suppress the speech of an acting party but to prevent further violence from the reacting party. Pulling federal funding in the name of the 1st amendment would be a demonstration of constitutional ignorance on the part of the president and a completely improper reaction.