To the author of “Limited freedom at BYU (6/9)”, you are completely right, there is no absolute free speech at BYU.
However, you make a mistake to think, as your article suggests, absolute free speech exists somewhere else.
This notion is completely fake, and even hypocritical. The French revolutionaries did a revolution in the name of “freedom” (including speech) by cutting the heads of all the ones who liked the ancient regime.
Today, try to go to any University and distribute a racist article to see what happens.
Also, try to use your free speech to threaten to kill someone — you will go to jail.
There isn’t, and will never be, a society that allows absolute free speech — there is always a changing list of things to be censored. The only difference is BYU still uses the old list.
Luiz Maykot
Florianopolis, Brazil
