Colorado banned free speech zones on campus.

[TexasTowelie]

Maybe you went to a candidate rally on a Colorado university campus this campaign season and spotted a sign with an arrow directing you to a designated “free speech area.”

As of the fall semester, on Colorado’s public university campuses, those areas roping off the First Amendment will be no more.

Colorado’s Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper, just signed a bipartisan law granting free speech rights across all campuses— not restricted to particular areas, which has been the current practice.

What does the new law do?

The law defines freedom of expression as speaking, picketing, carrying a sign, or distributing material, and allows people the right to do so freely throughout public university campuses. Voter registration drives also count as free speech. Speech for commercial purposes, like trying to sell stuff, doesn’t.

Read more: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/164828/colorado-free-speech-zones-campus

[J_William_Ryan]

1. And the new law could likely be ruled un-Constitutional.

The First Amendment is neither ‘unlimited’ nor ‘absolute.’

There are time, place, and manner restrictions on speech which are perfectly appropriate and Constitutional, where such restrictions are not content-based.

Local jurisdictions - such as public universities - have the authority to establish speech venue restrictions out of concern for public safety, for example, having nothing to do with the content of the speech; restrictions that could very well be upheld by the courts, invalidating the Colorado measure.