The University of California, Berkeley’s decision to block another conservative lecture, this time featuring popular author Ben Shapiro, rightfully sparked a fresh round of disgust among free speech advocates on Wednesday.
The school is under heavy fire from conservatives for a series of First Amendment controversies that unfolded over the course of the last school year, even facing a lawsuit from Young America’s Foundation and the Berkeley College Republicans over Ann Coulter’s canceled lecture in April. Between the riots that blocked Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking and the university’s decision to cancel Coulter’s lecture, Berkeley has become a high-profile battleground of the contemporary campus speech movement.
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