A bill to protect free speech on college campuses, introduced Thursday in Tennessee’s state House, was informally named in honor of Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who has sparked waves of student protests over his offensive remarks. “Too many times we’ve seen classrooms where the professor doesn’t want to hear both sides of an issue,” Hensley said. Yiannopoulos styles himself as a free speech advocate. A scheduled speech at the University of California, Berkeley, last week was called off by school officials after some protesters turned violent and police put the campus on lockdown. A statement from the Berkeley College Republicans, who had invited Yiannopoulos, said the group’s right to free speech “was silenced by criminals and thugs.” President Donald Trump also weighed in, threatening to pull federal funding from the school.

Source: Huffington Post February 10, 2017 00:45 UTC