Some good news!

For the first time, a public university is having me speak on government-led social media censorship. The lecture is Thursday at the University of West Florida. If you are near Pensacola, please come.

Since Covid started, American universities have wanted nothing to do with me.

I guess I’m not surprised these supposed citadels of free expression and debate don’t want anyone to question their Covid lockdown policies, much less their mRNA jab mandates.

But I will admit to being a teeny… tiny… bit surprised that they won’t even let me speak about censorship - specifically social media censorship. I would say that as the only person ever to force a social media company to reinstate me after suing over a ban, I have decent qualifications to discuss the issue.

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(You can’t stop the truth. But you can refuse to invite it to campus.)

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(The sole exception in the last three years was Hillsdale College, which invited me to teach journalism for a week in fall 2021. No one’s going to say Hillsdale’s politics are those of mainstream academia.)

Now, for the first time, a public university is allowing me to tar its hallowed halls by discussing why free speech might matter, and the tricky role that social media companies play in disseminating (and manipulating) information.

On Thursday, at 6 p.m., I will give the Seligman First Amendment Lecture at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. If you’re nearby, please come. If not, you can watch a livestream by scanning the QR code below.

Hopefully - assuming I can refrain from frothing at the mouth and declaring the arrival of the Fifth Reich, or whatever - other universities will follow the UWF’s move and let their own students hear why allowing multiple points of view isn’t scary!

Hope to see you there. Guess it’s time to write my speech. Or at least some notes.