Stanford silencing Chanel Miller constitutes a free speech crisis

Published October 7, 2019 9:21pm ET



The silencing of Chanel Miller may not be political, but it’s no less a crisis of free speech than Stanford attempting to censor Dinesh D’Souza or the Heritage Foundation.

Miller, previously known to the world as “Emily Doe,” recently identified herself to the world as the woman who survived a horrific sexual assault by Stanford undergraduate Brock Turner. Miller’s victim impact statement had already been read by the world by tens of millions of people by the time she put her name to the story, but Stanford can’t fathom the notion of letting her tell the truth on their territory.

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