Public colleges and universities shouldn't be able to restrict free speech on campus.

To start off, I would like to quote the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, ""Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." I will be arguing for the topic of the following: Public Colleges and Universities ought not restrict any free speech. I will now move on to my arguments. All United States citizens have Civil Liberties, included under the protective umbrella of Civil Liberties falls Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Assembly just to name a few. As defined by Blacks Law Dictionary, Civil Liberties are the liberty of a member of society, being a man's natural liberty, so far as restrained by human laws and no further as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. If you are silenced to the point where you can not speak your opinion without getting kicked out of school, that is beyond limiting your speech for the advantage of the public. The silencing of ones opinions such as political standings, abortion, gun control, and costumes of all things often occur because a small community of people get triggered or are just uncomfortable with the topic and this is not in the advantage of the General Public and favors a minority. Schools are taking advantage of the lack of attention the government is giving them in terms of speech codes to shape them how they want. To limit discourse and debate is to limit the development of young minds and hinders their personal development on topics such as politics. Your college years are often times your first years away from home and on your own. During this period you are trying to make sense of the world around you, forming your own opinions on things that you never knew existed or were just foreign concepts to you. It is important for people in this stage to talk about their opinions with people that both agree and disagree. Often times these talks are the only time that people will learn more about their topic so it is even more important for people to talk about their stances. However, many of the topics that discourse may be helpful for are banned from campuses across the States. By doing this, schools are limiting the developing of young minds and harming their students. If the United Nations believes that you have the right to express your opinion and talk about it without interference, then our school campuses should follow suit. But for some reason our schools ignore the cries of the many and continue to censer and throw up barriers to stop people from " receiving and imparting information and ideas" throughout the campus. To summarize my statements, public Colleges and Universities should not be able to limit free speech because it goes against the Civil Liberties of all citizens, and many schools are abusing speech codes to limit discussions that would otherwise be helpful to the developing opinions of college students. And the United Nations agree that you should be able to communicate through any frontier. For those reasons, public colleges and universities should not be able to limit free speech on campus.