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Paul Junge: “The speech codes from the left that are attempts to shut…”

Featuring: Paul Junge, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 8

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Published | Video Starts at 17:09

I'm a Republican, and it used to be that in popular discourse, the Republicans were thought to kind of want to limit speech. But The speech codes from the left that are attempts to shut people down, to shut them up, really, even to prohibit thinking in certain ways, I think that would be a priority that would, that I would have to bring to Congress to say, we can't allow college campuses to try to prohibit speech. We can't allow certain jurisdictions to say that you're not permitted to do that. We have to look at ways that social media gets used to shut people down and … (17:09–17:27)

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