But Israeli hate speech and Israeli terrorism is A-OK in Trump's book. In fact he will defend it, fund it, and spread it. Who is he really working for?
What happened to free speech in America? This is what ya”ll voted for. If we allow him to curb speech on college campuses, what’s next? Can’t talk about who knows what and get jailed for it?
Free speech must be protected regardless of who is saying it. So much for America First. #America #Trump https://video.nostr.build/3e4df7d86d3c5ae8c2f7ecd7b283fe11b5340ed8b76a197a8d6105cf9dcdaeff.mp4
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I agree that's sort of bullshit, but it's strictly not an encroachment on free speech. They can still say whatever they like, the government is just going to stop voluntarily funding them and vouching for them.
It's like saying people should be free to get abortions but you don't want to pay for it. That's not anti-choice. it's pro-choice without actively supporting a particular choice.
It is very much suppression of free speech through heavy coercion. He said if the schools don't censor their students the feds will take away their accreditation which would make the degrees they hand out worthless. Then they might as well close up shop.
Federal accreditation is bullshit and exists as a coercion mechanism. Voluntarily inviting coercion by participating in a controlled system and then having the system do what it told you it would is not "suppression". That's "terms and conditions".
If you post on X and X removes your post, it's your fault for not understanding what it means to actually instantiate free speech properly.
I understand your point but the government, unlike a corporation, is bound by the first amendment, and this is a blatant violation of it.
I just don't see withholding of funding as construable as a law that abridges speech. I literally just re-read the first amendment and I don't see it.
It seems to be more on the spectrum of "freedom of reach". The same way a social media platform might not promote your content but doesn't take it down, the government is not creating a law about what institutions can legally say, just adjusting how much they're willing to support those institutions in other ways.
It comes down to creating an environment hopelessly dependent on the system and then using that as leverage for coercion. The same end goal of social credit IDs and CBDCs, which would bring it to the level of the individual.
Right. Which is why I started with "fuck federal funds and accreditation". The universities should do whatever they want and say good riddance to the system of dependency.
For those who value the universities' stance more than they value the federal accreditation system and discount, they will go along for the ride and the ethics will bifiurcate. This is the way.
100 percent suppression of speech. America shone home to free speech no matter how distasteful it may seem to some. No one has a right to silence other people because one day it could happen to you.
"whom".
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