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Well, it's another case of government overreach. this time, on the college campus in response to some serious allegations of sexual assault, the departments of education and justice last month issued a joint letter to the university of montana that my guest this week says amounts to a dangerous new speech code for colleges across the country. greg is the president of the foundation for individual rights in education and author of the book "unlearning liberty campus censorship and the end of american debate." i spoke with him earlier and asked him why. >> well, in a letter to the university of ...

12 bombings a day in iraq. if we hadn't had these protections inevitably these terrorists would come here and start setting off bombs in the usa. >> what about that argument, about the zeroing in on the terrorists as opposed to data mining everybody? >> i think the problem here is that the other confusion is that president obama says the choices between, you know, civil liberties and security. that's actually a false choice. i mean, you know, being alive is also a civil liberty, but more importantly if we don't do these things that aren't that intrusive, having billions of phone numbers in the...

And over again, but now the feds are stepping in and trying to impose this national speech code which would be laughed out of court if challenged. >> am i right that they have also abandoned something called a reasonable person standard, which strikes -- sounds reasonable to me, if a reasonable person would find it offensive, maybe it would be. explain that? >> they explicitly overruled the university of montana's requirement that the harassment be offensive to a reasonable person. and that leaves it open to the most sensitive person in the room getting to decide what people say on a college c...

Publicly reading a book. florida state university has red light speech codes that would be blast out-of-court if challenged. >> what is a red light speech code? >> the way we rate codes unconstitutional on public campuses and don't live up to pub private ones. i believe it is offensive or hurtful comments. you can see your code at the fire.org and check out everything that happened at florida state university. that is the thing that everybody thinks their school is the exception. >> don't we want the adults the central planners to protect us from offensive comments? >> and this is one of the t...

Focused on foreign policy. >> been in the oval office many times. >> peter: officials at the white house are focused on you. >> we are flagging problematic posts for facebook that spread misinformation. >> peter: that's right biden administration officials are combing through facebook looking for posts they think are disinformation. then notifying facebook when they find something they don't like. senator josh hawley, a republican tweets: so now the biden administration is using facebook to impose its covid-19 speech code in the social media platforms are increasingly just arms of the federal ...