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Ed Dept. launches ‘Free Speech Hotline’ to combat cancel culture on campus

“We’re announcing today the creation of the free speech hotline so any abridgement of free speech on a college campus can and should be reported to this new hotline,” said Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education Robert King in making the announcement.

The hotline will be an email account to be monitored by the Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel. The address is FreeSpeech@ed.gov.

“It’s time to feel free to laugh again,” noted King, who made the announcement about the hotline during an event hosted by the Education Department that highlighted how political correctness and cancel culture has made humor an impossibility in the quad and classroom in recent times.

The event, titled “What is to be done? Confronting a Culture of Censorship on Campuses,” focused on the prevailing trends on college campuses that censor, shut down, shout down, or otherwise silence unpopular opinions, guest lectures, and other groups and activities.

Every complaint will be reviewed, and investigations opened “where it is appropriate to do so,” a department spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal.