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The death of free speech in universities vs platforms for all are stupid

Verbal [Edit] [Delete] 12:40, 12 December '14

...or they're all silly

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11239437/Oxford-students-shut-down-abortion-debate.-Free-speech-is-under-assault-on-campus.html

response from Cambridge Union pres

http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2014/11/20/freedom-speech-doesnt-mean-get-whatever-platform-want/

http://timsquirrell.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/why-free-speech-isnt-absolute-and-its-okay-to-be-vulnerable/

Interested to hear what you guys think.