Report Card for 2025: Campus Censorship

It’s as certain as death and taxes. Whoever is in power WILL TRY TO ABUSE THE FIRST AMENDMENT. Here’s the 2025 campus score card for Trump era, 2.0, the inverse of what happened in the Biden era. Keep in mind that discrimination on campus is only one slice of a much bigger pie. Government censorship goes on in other places too. Trump has been a mixed bag, to be sure. Since his most recent election, for instance, the government jaw-boning and censorship of social media has diminished, but yet we do have this substantial problem on campus that has been goaded on by Trump. As Nat Henthoff famously wrote: “Free speech for me, but not for thee.”

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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