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No, but it is endemic to American colleges and universities which are government or government-funded institutions.

Furthermore, spend a little time on BlueSky and you will find huge support for the hate speech laws found in other countries.

Finally, the distinction between government regulation of speech and private regulation of speech is key in the court of law, but it is almost irrelevant from the point of view of a philosophy that values open inquiry, debate, and dissent as indispensible to human dignity and progress.



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