Social Media Censorship: Jay Bhattacharya vs. Kate Klonick
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
Most 18-to-24-year-old registered voters, a recent poll reports, view Israel's actions as "genocide."
The ACLU will represent the gun rights group in a case with widespread relevance for free speech.
A graduate student was forced to take down two pro-Palestinian signs from the door of her art studio, but others were allowed to keep up their own political messages.
"A group of eBay employees devised and engaged in a campaign of harassment, stalking, and threats to stop the Steiners from reporting about eBay" in their ECommerceBytes trade publication.
"The job of academia is the discovery of truth. Universities should not be in the bullshit business."
In her article, University of Pennsylvania professor Claire O. Finkelstein absurdly argued that colleges treat free speech as "near-sacred."
The ban also extends to private devices that are used to access state networks.
Liz Magill and two other university leaders provoked bipartisan outrage by defending freedom of expression on campus.
The trial of the first of 61 defendants starts today, but the judge has seemingly forbidden any of the defendants or their attorneys from discussing the case.
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Security clearances can be denied based on constitutionally protected speech; but there's an adjudicative process aimed at reviewing whether such denials make sense in light of the facts of each case.
Let's focus concretely on proposed bans on advocacy of "genocide," at Stanford and beyond.
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"We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good."
So a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel concluded this Summer, over a sharp dissent.
"And in (partial) defense of Harvard President Claudine Gay's controversial congressional testimony."
"Conservatives like Rep. Elise Stefanik should ask themselves: Do you honestly believe this [proposed new rule against "calls for genocide"] won't be weaponized to ban an Israeli cabinet official from speaking at Penn? An Israeli Defense Force soldier?"
"Double standards are frustrating, but we should address them by demanding free speech be protected consistently — not by expanding the calls for censorship."
Both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism has been suppressed on campuses.
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The court required the university defendants to keep plaintiff's identity confidential (common in pseudonymous Title IX cases), but refused to extend this to media, students, and others.
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Respecting free speech defends individual rights and lets people show us who they are.