That was Purdue.
Freedom of Speech Is Dead
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HemiHauler
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Could be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club - my father was a member in the late 1950s.
PeoplesElbow
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Who doesn't?
By the time I started playing Traveller, had a steady girlfriend for 7 months and did not need to dream.
SFSU Responds to Alleged Assault on Riley Gaines . . . By Praising the Protesters
The event was only the latest example of protesters “deplatforming” speakers with opposing views by shouting them down. The mob, however, was so unruly that police had to rush Gaines to safety.
One would think that this would be an easy call for any institution of higher education. Denying free expression and threatening those with opposing views is the very antithesis of core principles.
Instead, SFSU issued a statement that seemed to express sympathy for the protesters and those who were exposed to her views.
After beginning by expressing concern for the transgender community, the statement of Jamillah Moore, Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, repeatedly commends students for their protest and says “Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event. It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space.” At no point does SFSU express concern for Gaines or the students who arranged for the event. At no point does SFSU promise to hold students responsible for shouting down the speaker or endangering her.
Biden may regulate AI for ‘disinformation,' 'discriminatory outcomes'
Davidson said audits would help regulators assess whether AI systems perform as advertised and respect privacy, and whether they lead to "discriminatory outcomes or reflect unacceptable levels of bias."
Audits may also be used to determine whether AI systems "promote misinformation, disinformation, or other misleading content," he added.
The goal of policing disinformation created by AI is likely to present both technical and political challenges to federal regulators. Government officials are only just beginning to consider how to regulate AI — for example, NTIA just this week said it was seeking public comment on how it should approach AI regulation.
And the issue of misinformation and disinformation has been highly controversial under the Biden administration, since Republicans and Democrats seem incapable of agreeing on a definition. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security set up a "Disinformation Governance Board" but quickly dismantled it after it received withering criticism from Republicans who worried that the board would simply attack views and political opinions that run contrary to the Biden administration.
Over 100 Harvard professors form council in fight for free speech amid ‘crisis’
More than 100 of the school’s faculty members have joined the new Council on Academic Freedom, banding together to protect free speech on the Ivy League campus.
“We are in a crisis time right now,” Janet Halley, a Harvard Law School professor and feminist legal theory scholar, told The Post. “Many, many people are being threatened with — and actually put through — disciplinary processes for their exercise of free speech and academic freedom.”
The initiative was announced earlier this month with a Boston Globe op-ed penned by the council’s co-founder, psychology professor Steven Pinker, who declared, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and if we don’t defend academic freedom, we should not be surprised when … a disgusted citizenry writes us off.”
After that, the council nearly doubled in size over just four days, drawing faculty across all disciplines, according to council co-president Jeffrey Flier.
Yesterday, federal judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued an controversial ruling in the student-free-speech case of “L.M. v. Town of Middleborough.”In denying the student’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the judge found that a Middleborough, Massachusetts high school was likely within its rights to forbid the student from wearing a t-shirt saying “There Are Only Two Genders.”
Just Talwani consumed 17 pages to explain her ruling. The first six pages or so were a detailed, microscopic recitation of the entire incident, from start to finish, who said what to whom, who walked up which hallway, who was at the meeting, and so forth. It is not clear why any of those details were necessary, except that they showed the student was at all times clear in assertion of his rights, respectful, and non-confrontational.
Sounds like there was some good parenting somewhere in there.
It was clear which way things were going from the beginning of the order, which began by citing an affidavit from a school administrator that swore she knew several LGBTQ+ students who either attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts. The judge did not consider whether any suicidal thoughts could be caused by banal t-shirt messages, or whether there might be a different underlying cause of both suicidal feelings as well as sexual confusion.
That reasoning is not logic. It’s the classic, emotionally manipulative false dichotomy: “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”
Ultimately the judge decided that the limited infringement of the student’s free speech rights at school — she mentioned his unlimited social media rights outside school — was justified or outweighed by the benefits to protecting delicate LGBTQ+ students’ minds from encountering any type of information that challenged their fragile world view.
In other words, the judge did NOT say L.M. was altogether forbidden from saying “there are only two genders”; he just can’t say it at school because inclusion. In fairness, minor students only enjoy LIMITED constitutional rights. Schools act in loco parentis — they wield custodial parental rights — and parents obviously have right to squelch kids’ speech anytime they want, for any reason, and kids can’t complain to the courts. This dynamic was often painfully obvious on many a Childers family road trip.
All the same, the decision is bad precedent, because “inclusion” trumped the Constitution. Inclusion wasn’t even a thing more than ten minutes ago.
The courts saved us from the pandemic. Now, we have to save the courts — from wokeness. It’s going to be a long, difficult fight, so buckle up.
Finally, I have a suggestion for L.M., or for any other industrious, freedom-loving Nichols High School student who would like to further pressure the grievance system. Try this: wear to school a t-shirt with the following Bible verse printed on it:
You could underline the words “male and female he created them,” or even paint them in rainbow colors or something. In other words, in a new lawsuit, force the judge to reason her way around BOTH the free speech right AND the right of religious liberty, and in doing so, be required to find that the first words of the Bible — one of this country’s foundational documents — are “hate speech.”
Hint: the Bible is not hate speech. As they say, God IS love.
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Schools have ALWAYS claimed to be able to ' limit ' a students speech, to keep disruptions to a minimum ....., tee shirts with vulgar language or other offensive messages ... now a days that is limiting speech from the right that offends progressives, not the general public
SamSpade
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Schools will always allow t-shirts promoting a liberal agenda.
3CATSAILOR
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I would guess if a UFO lands, we can't call them aliens either. lol!
SamSpade
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The weird thing is - illegal alien is probably the most precise description I can think of.
They are not immigrants, because they're not making the slightest effort to enter legally. Making them - aliens.
They are not there legally, therefore - illegal.
It's the difference between a burglar and a guest - one is invited, the other is not.
Democrats are like little mentally ill children. They can't stop screaming and interrupting and tantruming. They do this in every encounter - scream and shout down anything they disagree with, no matter how ridiculous they're being. They have a come apart when it's anyone else's turn to speak.
They should have had that woman forcibly escorted out the first time she started yelling, then barred from any further meetings.