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According to its literature, FAC opposes "censorship of student publications, mandatory sensitivity-training programs and politically-correct student speech codes...
...Self-Censorship...
...censorship is possible, given thatHarvard's system administrators have total accessto students' e-mail...
Yoon then urges editorialists to engage in self-censorship, to try as much as possible to avoid offending anyone. He claims that writers usually write offensive articles for the sheer purpose of offending people. Clearly this is wrong and intellectually irresponsible. But Yoon gives no concrete evidence for his accusation...
...words. When they do not, these students usually suffer rebuke and loss of respect from others. In an intellectual environment, perhaps more than anywhere else, an enormous amount of faith must be placed in people's ability to from the free marketplace of ideas and words. The alternative of censorship is ultimately far more sinister and dangerous words that might be spoken in a university without speech codes...