Matt Teichman
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard 21 Jul
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So one question I'd have about the J.
K.
Rallying example is that in addition to threats of being fired and um very like um
uh sort of flamboyant public criticisms, uh she also received a lot of straight up harassment, threats of violence and so forth in extraordinary quantities.
Um do we want to separate that from like is there anyone who would just who who deserves to get that?
Or are we just talking about like the firing and the
Stride in public criticisms.
Trevor Burrus
So there's been a definite move amongst social media platforms for them to see it as part of their job to moderate content, censor content, encourage certain kinds of content, discourage other kinds of content, where that was not at all part of the job description of a social media platform I in my opinion, as recently as ten years ago.
Um our content moderation policies on social media websites an example of
Clamping down on someone's right to free speech.
Another arena in which these questions have frequently come up recently is the university.
Where we happen to be sitting right now, we're in a university.
The big buzzword of course in in a university is academic freedom.
So a professor at a university has a right to academic freedom.
And uh they have the right to sort of, you know, pursue the study of whatever they're studying, wherever it leads them, and not like get in trouble for, you know, if their research leads them in politically unfashionable directions.
What box do we want to file academic freedom under?
Is it, you know, like cancel culture?
Is it like one of these things we've been talking about where
a sort of values question.
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