Freedom Of Speech

 

Lindsay Shepherd was a 22-year-old university student and a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. She helped her professors with some of the lessons about communications.

One day, in one of her classes, she played clips of two people discussing opposing ideas.
They were talking about social issues and why the government should or shouldn’t make people say or not say things.After her class, some students got upset with the ideas in the video clips and
reported her to the university’s Diversity and Equity office.

In November 2017, the university office summoned her to the office to explain her action.
She decided to record the conversation between her and the people in the office.
Then she gave the recording to journalists who released the recording online.
After that a lot of people understood that the professors at that office were trying to stop some ideas and force their own ideas on students. Lots of YouTubers and reporters made videos about Lindsay,
and this immediately made her a free speech hero.

In 2018 she received two awards (Harry Weldon Canadian Values Award and the HxA Open Mind Outstanding Graduate Student award) from two organisations for her courage and work for free expression of ideas.