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Originally Posted by peter12
The university is a public facility and the individuals asked to leave were paying students.
We also have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, section 2 guarantees the right to freedom of expression. In Canada, this right has only been restricted in the case of peddling illegal pornography (extreme S/M and child) and the spreading of anti-semitic hate speech, specifically in regards to the Keegstra case where this was taking place in a grade school.
What the university has done is a violation of these students freedom of expression. I will never be donating to my alma mater ever again as a consequence of the university's actions. It's that simple.
University is a place of ideas. We are there to challenge ourselves, make ourselves feel uncomfortable and hopefully, take some steps towards some fundamental truths. It's not a place where you try to avoid as much offense as possible.
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now - correct me if i'm wrong but isn't the university partially publicly funded but considered autonomous from any sort of direct government control and therefore private when it comes to defining how its property will be used?
edit: also - aren't there some limits to free speech based on some sort of public obscenity laws?