[jsprogrammer]

It may exist to a greater extent on some college campuses than some corporate campuses.

At college you can choose to work on whichever topic you'd like and discuss it with whomever you would like.

At a corporation, many people are simply told what to do and if they deviate from doing what they were told, are fired and/or treated poorly.

[blumkvist]

Do you really believe this is the same as soviet repression of freedom of speech?

[jsprogrammer]

Sorry, but did I or anyone else here claim to believe that?

I was only trying to explain what the original poster might have meant with their parenthetical.