A week on, and this story gained no real traction in The Great Free Speech Discourse.
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1453078818516836359
FWIW here is a measure of web interest in the protagonists of three stories: professor disinvited from MIT (Dorian Abbott), the Yale Law student threatened by an administrator (Trent Colbert) and the professor who was fired after criticizing Mike Pence (Lora Burnett) 
There is a certain type of campus free speech story that is pretty cut and dried - firing of faculty for political speech, reducing tenure protection, censoring faculty talking about voting rights - but strangely don't draw in the support of certain free speech warriors. Why?
My guess is that for some, the point of the campus speech beat is not a principled belief in free speech but a) to advance a "wokeism gone mad" narrative or b) to discredit universities as institutions. Faculty are viewed with suspicion if they don't fit with those narratives.
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