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Should a university conference on censorship be censored? In Utah, apparently so. “We are censoring discussions of censorship. The campaign to exert ideological control over higher education turns more Kafkaesque by the day.” Read more here: pen.org/organizers-o...

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Organizers Cancel a University Conference on Censorship After Being Warned It Could Run Afoul of Utah Law Unless It Was Censored. Yes, You Read that Right By Eileen AJ Connelly Organizers at Utah’s Weber State University canceled a two-day conference on censorship after the administration claimed that they risked running afoul of a state law unless the ... https://pen.org/organizers-of-a-university-conference-on-censorship-had-to-cancel-after-being-told-the-content-likely-would-have-run-afoul-of-utah-law-unless-it-was-censored-yes-you-read-that-right/