You’re a professor. Increasing academic pressure to restrict free speech on campus is a concern. You record a video on the subject. You make an effort to shine a light on the problem of censorship and what happens. Your college tries to censor it.
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The video, produced by PSU Professor Bruce Gilley, was made to accompany his new report titled “The New Censorship in American Higher Education: Insights from Portland State University,” and included snippets from a publicly available video of a recent faculty senate meeting.
But Gilley said university brass lodged a copyright strike against his video this week, forcing him to post an edited version that removed his peers’ comments.
As The College fix notes, a “University ‘put a gag order on our video of a public meeting at a public university on a public YouTube channel.”
H/T | Legal Insurrection
