WKU censored online criticism (a blast from the past)

Much of academia these days is made up of dumb losers who cannot tolerate or comprehend dissent. America's universities are in bad hands. But students have suffered through universities' intolerance for years now.

This includes the poologgery that occurred at Western Kentucky University back in 2012. Even in a state whose public universities have a history of political intolerance (as I know firsthand), this was worse than usual.

The college persuaded Twitter to close down a parody account that criticized the school. A student also said her schoolmates had been skeeped at by school officials over Twitter posts.

WKU's president went on Facebook to reprimand students over their posts, but getting Twitter to close an account is what truly crossed the line into censorship. The critical posts weren't even made using a school account or school computers.

WKU officials claimed they were trying to protect the school's brand. But actually the effort was aimed at silencing criticism of WKU.

By that time, much of our education system had already become a tainted brand. There wasn't much left to protect in 2012, and it's far worse now.