[Wallace T.]

The Washington Metro transit board and Cal Poly are not part of the private sector, but are government entities. It would seem that First Amendment protections should apply in these institutions. As for the legal problems of Oriana Fallaci and David Irving, they occurred in Italy and Austria, respectively. Continental European nations have never recognized a broadly interpreted right to free speech in the sense the United States has. Not even Britain and the Commonwealth countries enjoy the level of freedom we have in this area, as evidenced by "hate speech" laws on the books in Britain and Canada.

[freedumb2003]

The Washington Metro transit board and Cal Poly are not part of the private sector, but are government entities.

Within the confines of the job, they can indeed censor. When I worked for the State of California, we were given directives at election time that we could NOT have any political banners, buttons, etc. on our person or cubicle walls, since this would be viewed as an endorsement.

They couldn't censor me outside of the workplace but they had to do so to ensure impartiality (the converse of the issue at hand).