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> speech itself is protected unless it’s targeted

It's First Amendment protected. Universities have a long track record of having policies more restrictive than that.

Yes and that’s a direct quote from Gay during the hearing - “Gay, in her testimony, said such speech can be a violation of the school’s policies “depending on the context” if it is “targeted at an individual.””

Which is mincemeat of an answer. Plenty of hate speech is banned on university campuses even when not targeted at an indi vidual.

That’s irrelevant unless you have examples of this being the case at Harvard.

Harvard is notorious in its modern history of censorship [1].

[1] https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...

None of those things are examples of students being censored. Disinvitation and protesting are themselves protected activities. This doesn’t say what you’re claiming it says.

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