His scheduled visit Wednesday to the University of California at Berkeley has raised an issue facing campuses across America at the dawn of the Trump presidency: What is the line between free speech and hate speech? But as a public university, Berkeley's administrators are legally bound by the First Amendment to protect free speech, meaning even offensive and hate speech cannot be banned or censored, Dirks said. Administrators say the demands to stifle Yiannopoulos show that modern sensitivities are changing the debate about free speech on campus. "We support robust debate, but we cannot abide by harassment, slander, defamation and hate speech." A group of veterans from Berkeley's 1960s Free Speech Movement praised administrators for allowing the event.

Source: ABC News January 31, 2017 17:14 UTC