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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I guess I don't get this. It's not like it would keep him from getting his message out. He's the President of Iran. He already has many microphones. The point of inviting him to speak at a university is that the intellectual debate at the school is improved. Surely it's beneficial to people at Columbia to have the chance to hear him. In the First Amendment context, courts say that the remedy to speech you don't like it more speech. Why isn't that true here?

It is. FWIW, I'm not saying that he should be restricted from speaking, just expressing irritation with this private actor's judgment. It's possible to be annoyed with the choices of a nonstate actor without being anti-speech.