Dartmouth College Gets ‘Red Light’ Rating on Free Speech from Civil-Liberties Group

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education rates colleges for how their policies could be used to restrict free speech on campus. Dartmouth College went from a "green light" rating in 2015 to a yellow light rating to a red light this year, because users of the school's information technology resources have to agree not to "Post or transmit content that is harmful, offensive, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, defamatory, hateful or otherwise discriminatory, false and misleading, incites an illegal act, or is otherwise in breach of your obligations to any person or contrary to any applicable laws and regulations"; it's the "offensive" and "discriminatory" parts that draw attention; one FIRE official tells The Dartmouth, the student newspaper, that the the code "bans broad categories of speech."