A Wisconsin state lawmaker’s new bill would penalize the state’s public university and state technical colleges for violations of free speech rights or academic freedom. The legislation comes after years of pressure from activists and state lawmakers who believe the University of Wisconsin (UW) hasn’t done enough to defend free speech on campus. A prior bill in the legislature that would have expelled students who disrupted invited speakers on campus failed to pass the state legislature, according to a Longview News-Journal summary. The university’s board of regents approved a resolution containing provisions similar to the failed bill after a widely publicized Antifa-led riot at the University of California, Berkeley, on Feb. 1, 2017, prevented former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos from giving a speech. The incident became a rallying point for conservatives nationwide upset about campus censorship and suppression of free speech by angry mobs. But this new bill, AB 735, …