Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

#WINNING:

PROBABLY:

Actually, as many NGO flunkies and government bureaucrats lose their jobs in the coming months, it’s wise to remember Eric Hoffer’s words: “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.”

There needs to be a plan, as their response is likely to be drastic, and possibly dangerous.

THAT DOES SEEM TO BE HOW IT WORKS:

IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY:

MATT TAIBBI: About Those Onesies: A brief note to Senator Bernie Sanders. “Many who (like you) who opposed mandates lost jobs, were removed from the Internet, or denounced as ‘anti-vax.’ Others lost services, like the protesting truckers who had online fundraisers blocked. You did not speak in defense of these people. Many concluded that there were no defenders of free speech left in the Democratic caucus.”

Bernie always falls in line with the party’s demands when the chips are down.

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

AND NO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR THE OFFICIALS, WHICH REALLY MAKES THIS NEWS: U Tenn Pharmacy School Pays $250K Settlement for Trying to Expel Student for Sexually Themed Tweets. “For years, colleges around the country have wielded professionalism codes against students for their expression even when the student’s speech has no bearing on their ability to succeed in a given field. Kim’s posts were wholly separate from the college, as her accounts operated under a pseudonym and did not reveal her then-identity as a student.”

Related: Universities That Target Their Students’ Free Speech Should Have To Pay A Public Price For It. “It’s shocking how audacious public universities can be about this sort of thing — the extent to which they will pursue “investigations” or disciplinary acts against students for what would clearly seem to be protected speech (given that public university students are generally protected by the First Amendment). But “clearly seems to be” can take you only so far if you don’t have access to legal recourse. Diei was very fortunate to have pro bono help from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. . . . A lot of universities act similarly to cowardly, risk-averse corporations. Their response to the sort of whiny narc who ‘reports’ someone’s social media posts sometimes defaults to ‘OH MY GOD WE ARE SO SORRY WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE YOU FEEL LESS OFFENDED??’ That is: They’re not going to do the right thing out of loyalty to their students, or out of a principled stance on free speech. They’re going to do the right thing when it becomes too expensive, from a monetary or public-relations perspective, to do the wrong thing.”

HAH: