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We’ll stick with with the Free Press, thank you, and refer interested readers to the July 2 National Memo’s reprint of a June 25 Alternet story by Alex Henderson headlined: “Miami Paper Blasts DeSantis Over Ideological Policing Of Colleges.”

"On June 22, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a Republican-sponsored bill that calls for standards of "intellectual diversity" to be enforced on college campuses in the Sunshine State. But the Miami Herald''s editorial board, in a scathing editorial published on June 24, emphasizes that the law isn't about promoting free thought at colleges and universities but rather, is an effort to bully and intimidate political viewpoints that DeSantis and his Republican allies in the Florida Legislature disagree with.

"The state government wants to know what political ideologies and beliefs university professors hold, and it's giving the green light for students to secretly record lessons to later use what instructors say against them," the editorial explains. "All of that is being done in the name of free speech. Such twisted logic and targeting academia have been hallmarks of anti-democratic regimes. Now, they have also become the MO of Florida Republicans who passed a bill that requires public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty and staff, to ensure 'intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity' on campuses.” etc., etc.

Or Google and read the actual Herald editorial at "Joseph McCarthy would’ve loved Florida’s new ‘intellectual diversity’ law.”. . . The intellectual-diversity survey will be selected by the Board of Governors, which oversees the state university system, and the State Board of Education. It is supposed to be “objective, nonpartisan and statistically valid.” We cannot wait to learn the Board of Education’s definition of “objective” and “nonpartisan” given the Board’s highly partisan decision to heed DeSantis’ call to ban “critical race theory” from K-12 schools because it makes white people feel bad — and even though the theory was not part of school curriculum.

. . . ”, etc., etc.