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In a victory for free speech on campus, Florida Gulf Coast University has completely revised its 'Personal Abuse' policy, which FIRE named its April 2007 Speech Code of the Month.
That policy previously prohibited 'lewd, indecent, racist, prejudice [sic], obscene, or expressions deemed inappropriate.' As we wrote in April 2007:
This policy is unconstitutional on so many levels that it is almost hard to know where to begin. ...
