Most speech takes place in schools and commercial establishments. And college administrators are able to hide their restrictive speech codes behind EEOC guidelines and harassment laws, allowing them to evade criticism from students challenging censorship and ideological persecution. Unconstitutionally, the government uses our schools and employers as intermediaries in a war on free speech. By their own definitions, many harassment policies constitute harassment. Many reasonable people at MIT find that the vague and arbitrary constraints on their speech create a hostile, offensive, and intimidating environment.
Inoffensive speech needs no protection, since no one wants to ban it.
Free speech is the safeguard of all our other freedoms. It must be upheld. Even though this particular letter didn't get printed, I strongly encourage people to take their flames, make them into letters to the editor for their local newspaper, print them out, and send them in. But they vote and their representatives control us. We have to reach them and teach them to vote against censors, and writing letters to the editor is an easy way to do so.