‘Hopefully, other public universities will learn from this that if they violate the First Amendment, they can be held accountable, and it can be very expensive.’
Censorship has been rampant across America in recent years. The FBI interfered in the 2020 presidential election by claiming, falsely, that the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandals were Russian disinformation and saying media should suppress the information.
Facebook admitted it censored language under pressure from the Joe Biden administration.
And no one probably will ever know just how much accurate information about alternative treatments for COVID was silenced after claims from bureaucrats and pharmaceutical interests about those mRNA shots working.
The costs of those actions never have been totaled.
But now one university is learning the cost of trying to silence the speech of one professor.
It’s about $1.6 million.
That’s from a report from the ADF, which fought the case on behalf of a professor who expressed his opinion “on treatment approaches for youth experiencing gender dysphoria.”
Officials at the University of Louisville “demoted, harassed, and effectively fired a distinguished professor who successfully led the university’s child psychiatry program,” the ADF reported.