Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: will update later | Judge: will update later
Current protections against hate speech are working – on campus harrassment is decreasing nationally now.  
Sutton 16 Halley Sutton, Report shows crime on campus down across the country, Campus Security Report 13.4 (2016), 9/9/16,http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casr.30185/full LADI
A recent report released by the National Center for Education Statistics found an overall decrease
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lower than in 2001 for every category except forcible sex offenses and murder.

Removing restrictions on free speech allows hate speech – hate speech IS free speech
Volokh 15 Eugene Volokh,No, There’s No “hate Speech” Exception to the First Amendment, The Washington Post, 5/7/15, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.05cfdd01dea4 LADI
I keep hearing about a supposed “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment
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with any established definition of “hate speech” that I know of.) 

Hate speech will be amplified in the face of powerless minorities—it instills terror and destroys education—turns the 1ac because free speech becomes exclusionary
SCU, S. (2016). Campus Hate Speech Codes - Resources - Character Education - Santa Clara University. Scu.edu. Retrieved 11 December 2016, from https://www.scu.edu/character/resources/campus-hate-speech-codes/ AS
Those who advocate hate speech codes believe that the harm codes prevent is more important
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free speech, and the just balance between individual rights and group rights.

Hate speech definitively incites violence – empirics prove
Joyce Arthur 11 (Joyce Arthur, Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national political pro-choice group.) The Limits of Free Speech, Rewire 9-21-2011 AT
Violent acts of hate are generally preceded by hate speech that is expressed publicly and
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, and socially—and pays the consequences through increased discrimination and violence.

Empirics disprove self-censorship, and hate speech cause direct harm that can’t be “corrected”
Sean Mcelwee 13 (Sean Mcelwee, ) The Case for Censoring Hate Speech, Huffington Post 7-24-2013 AT
It’s interesting to note how closely this idea resembles free market fundamentalism: simply get
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defamed, “There are a lot of other nice people out there.”

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines Independent FK | Judge: Sean Fahey
The late-capitalist system has been so saturated with meaning that society has become meaningless; the masses represent nothing, unable to speak or be spoken for. Politics becomes an empty simulacrum, a theater-play of power asking us to join in even when this “power” is unable to liberate us – it is only capable of controlling us when we buy into its illusion. The aff's endorsement of free speech is precisely this illusion – they are obsessed with producing more meaning, mobilizing the masses with information, activism, and protest – it fuels the code’s desperate drive to synthesize meaning. Reject the aff's call for protest and action; instead of injecting the mass with more meaning, you should let the system's inability to produce meaning overtake the system itself in a beautiful implosion.
Baudrillard 83 Jean, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES ••• OR THE END OF THE SOCIAL. 1983 AT
There is no longer any polarity between the one and the other in the mass
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struggle nor in the molecular hodge-podge of desire-breaching minorities. 

Meaning is lost in the attempt of making the world transparent through information and research. Reality doesn’t change, facts and evidence divert intended meaning.
Baudrillard 81. Jean, He is French, “Simulacra and Simulations,” pg. 79-81
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less
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imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech. 

The affirmative’s will to represent falls into the cycle of a self-defeating transparency. All attempts at transparency fundamentally act in congruence with the representational violence of geopolitics that attempts to render the whole world transparent.  This is the violence of geopolitics, the radical elimination of the other.
Artrip and Debrix 14. Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, “The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation,” Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)
Such an expectation about the ontological “location” of the objects, subjects,
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immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).

The alternative’s act of silent refusal disr-upts and outpaces the system’s demand for meaning, causing the system to I m p l o d e from within – our alternative is radically incompatible with the affirmative’s call for speech – this turns every framing card in the aff.
Baudrillard 83 Jean, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES ••• OR THE END OF THE SOCIAL. 1983 AT
From Resistance to Hyperconformity The emergence of silent majorities must be located within the entire
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every chance that our passage towards implosion may also be violent and catastrophic.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: will update later | Judge: will update later
Colleges must continue banning offensive speech under Title IX provisions or lose federal funds. This does not follow the first amendment but is necessary to secure funding and maintain a suitable educational environment.
Bernstein 3 David E. Bernstein – professor of Constitutional law at George Mason University since 1995, visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School, Georgetown Law Center, University of Michigan Law School, and William and Mary Law School, You Can’t Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties From Antidiscrimination Laws, pg. 60-61, DS
Given these constitutional barriers, public university speech codes were on the way out until
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Amendment, then so can they. Unfortunately, they may be right. 

Federal funding is key to public universities and colleges by funding for research, student aid, and low-income students’ access to higher education.
Woodhouse 15 Kellie Woodhouse, journalist at Inside Higher Ed, digital media company with decades of journalism experience covering higher education. “Impact of Pell Surge” June 12, 2015 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/12/study-us-higher-education-receives-more-federal-state-governments, DS
Federal spending has surpassed state spending as the main source of public funding in higher
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in Pell funding for every full-time-equivalent student in 2013.

Access to higher education is key to social mobility and US competitiveness under globalization and evolving technologies. Anything else risks the system going obsolete.
Spellings 6 Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education. “A Test of Leadership: Chartering the Future of U.S. Higher Education”  a report of the commission. Pre-Publication Copy https://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports.html , DS
To reach these objectives, we believe that U.S. higher education institutions
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seeing their market share substantially reduced and their services increasingly characterized by obsolescence.

US leadership prevents great power war and existential governance crises. A decrease in competitiveness leads to great power war, its try or die.
Brooks, Ikenberry, and Wohlforth ’13 (Stephen, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College “Don’t Come Home America: The Case Against Retrenchment,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Winter 2012/13), pp. 7–51)
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far
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that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85