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Damian Thompson of the London Telegraph has picked up on Indoctrinate U--and says that the film "confirms something I’ve suspected for a long time – that the closest thing in the Western world to a police state is an American university campus." Thompson covered Indoctrinate U years ago, when it was still in its early stages--and now that he's seen the finished film, he gives it an unqualified endorsement: "This is the movie Hillary Clinton doesn’t want you to see. So watch it."

Comments are open at the Telegraph, and the discussion is intriguing--not least for the number of American students who register their agreement with Maloney's contention that free speech on campus is most definitely not alive and well. One American reader laments the fact that it's necessary to learn about the film in an English paper. And anecdotes about Columbia University's schools of law and journalism abound, including one about a very famous, very ideological law professor who reputedly imposes her views on students with impunity.

Meanwhile, a Columbia student takes issue with Maloney's footage of the campus -- and Maloney sets her straight.

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