The Future of Free Speech: Curiosity Culture - Olivia Eve Gross

Justifying the censorship of speakers and speech to preserve principles of academic freedom is contradictory to the goals of the environment. [...] The students at BCCC protested the college president’s decision in what became one of the largest demonstrations in support of gay rights be- fore the 1969 Stonewall rebellion in New York City and one of the only known pre-Stonewall gay protests on a college campus. [...] The simultaneous balance between the need for 82 Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Olivia Eve Gross the harm principle and difficulty deciding when speech is being overly censored is a serious challenge facing universities across the world. [...] Similar to the aim of no-platforming, which seeks to deny the voice and pres- ence of a given speaker altogether, the book banning taking place in K–12 schools across the United States aims to eliminate the existence of entire subjects. [...] about the author Olivia Eve Gross is the Founder and CEO of The High School Law Review, which offers curriculum and programs promoting the study of constitutional law and the value of dissent to students worldwide.