Professor censors profanity on student free speech wall

A Sam Houston State University professor removed an insult to President Barack Obama posted by a student on the student free speech wall. Incensed by the censorship, students reported the vandalism to the campus police.

Rather than come to the aid of the student in support of the First Amendment, the police threatened students with a charge of disturbing the peace and required them to remove all profanity or take the wall down. -db

From a commentary for  FIRE, September 23, 2011, by Adam Kissel.

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