TheConversationUS , to academicchatter
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Is free speech in trouble on college campuses?

The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.

A expert provides some needed context:
https://theconversation.com/why-university-presidents-find-it-hard-to-punish-advocating-genocide-college-free-speech-codes-are-both-more-and-less-protective-than-the-first-amendment-219566
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nicholas_saunders ,

@jsdodge @TheConversationUS @academicchatter @eilonwy

"
now do you think uh Cosby is a legacy that will be hurt yeah you do right I mean there was a comedian Patton Oswald he told me I think the worst part of The Cosby thing was the hypocrisy and I disagree you disagree with that yeah I thought it was the raping"

The isn't great, but probably worse is selectively applying standards to promote a political agenda.

https://youtu.be/_KK2wtfvmkE?si=p9e1s0hdmjNx8bii

The is .

Marielle_W , to politicalscience
@Marielle_W@mastodon.social avatar

Freedom House has published the 2023 edition of its Freedom on the Net ranking, finding a decline in global internet freedom.

But how should we understand these rankings? What is the 'internet freedom' they measure?

Read the article by @tanyalokot and myself to find out

https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/politics-of-internet-freedom-rankings

@politicalscience

batalanto ,
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@Marielle_W @politicalscience @tanyalokot totally belongs in the dog house. They claim to “Protect a Free and ” and yet their own website is on a repressive exclusive site. WTF. They actually claim¹ CF can talk about “Internet blocking and the consequences for human rights.” I had a medical emergency & could not access health info because of Cloudflare.

fgusmao , to philosophy
@fgusmao@mastodon.social avatar

is threatening the of the world’s oceans

>"None of the 17 () is on track to be achieved by 2030... But progress on a few, including the 14th goal — to conserve and use the — has actually been going backwards since the 2015 UN summit..."

@philosophy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02746-8

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