FIRE Senior Scholar Sarah
McLaughlin discusses her new book, “Authoritarians in the Academy: How the
Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship
Threaten Free Speech.“
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:17 Book origins
03:38 How China censored speech on American
campuses
18:36 COVID’s impact for international students’
speech
22:05 What is sensitivity exploitation?
25:35 Free speech at international satellite
campuses
31:28 Attempted deportations of Mahmoud Khalil and
Rumeysa Ozturk
36:52 Sarah’s free speech inspirations: literature and
people
Read the transcript here:
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/so-speak-transcript-authoritarians-academy
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