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Flat White

Free speech now comes with security costs?

7 August 2018

6:07 PM

7 August 2018

6:07 PM

La Trobe University is encouraging censorious behaviour by charging special security fees for an event with commentator Bettina Arndt hosted by the campus Liberal club.

Security fees create a heckler’s veto: the charge empowers the people who disagree to organise the biggest, most aggressive and therefore costliest protest they can muster.

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