The Babylon Bee Comes to Harvard
…until Musk purchased the platform that the Bee was restored. But other platforms are still causing trouble. One of Dillon’s talks on censorship was recently—and quite ironically—removed from Vimeo for…
…until Musk purchased the platform that the Bee was restored. But other platforms are still causing trouble. One of Dillon’s talks on censorship was recently—and quite ironically—removed from Vimeo for…
…for the proprietary models might suffice. Responsible AI Irresponsible AI can be deeply malicious, enabling automated warfare, surveillance, censorship, and propaganda. But usually, misbehaving AIs are just incompetent or jerks….
…Illinois Institute of Technology recruited spies to steal top information from American companies focused on building aerospace and satellite technology. The censorship, however, is similar. Chinese students are frequently bullied…
…also mentioned that educators are increasingly self-censoring, for fear that using the “wrong” language can result in being shunned or even fired. Some of this censorship comes as a result…
…1Nikolas Lanum, “Liberal Networks Previously Unbothered by Twitter Censorship Cry Foul over Musk Suspending Journalists,” Fox News, Dec. 17, 2022. Photo by Jared Gould – Adobe – Text to Image…
…college administrators. By contrast, the FIRE survey records seven percent of somewhat liberal students and nine percent of far-left students as being targeted for speech. Self-censorship is prevalent on college…
…of sentiment or talk of tradition can excuse Nazi persecution of scholars and students. The Heidelberg of today is an illustration of the exorcism of academic freedom by Nazi censorship…
…which are mandatory). All of this is anathema to intellectual diversity and free inquiry. Researchers have documented the inevitable result: alarming rates of student and faculty self-censorship, including at Ohio’s…
…ration health care on DEI principles, and DEI powers censorship—above all in the search algorithms and the advertising demonetizations of the tech lords. But the imposition of DEI on the…
…speech codes, censorship, retaliation, and cancellation will be known to many readers of Minding the Campus. Along with its legal work, the organization holds an annual faculty conference and provides…
…faculty contracts and tenure reviews contingent upon DEI-themed conformation encourage self-censorship and chill free speech. An article by the center-right American Enterprise Institute (AEI) explains that mandatory DEI statements in…
…ultimate safeguard? Age of AI, an AI-focused investment firm, has released a new AI model, FreedomGPT. It is allegedly censorship-free and open-source, such that developers can continually improve its capabilities….
…the ideas, not the complexion, of the teacher that matter. The role-model hypothesis has little scientific basis. Censorship and Consensus Marcia McNutt recently clarified her views on science in our…
…preserve the rules and norms of free speech on campus. While this is clearly fraught with possible unintended consequences—the appointee could become the chief censorship officer—the incentives would have to…
…have multiplied in size and power. Mandatory diversity statements, cancel culture, trigger warnings, and bias response teams evidence this decline. It has come with a worrisome rise in self-censorship, where…
…Left that hijacks a word, redefines it, imbues it with value, and socially polices it. This type of language leads to censorship (self-imposed and external), and has been widely documented…
…and censorship, and academic administrations lobby to extend their illiberalism to the republic at large. Further, they refuse to enforce any law that seeks to inhibit their discrimination and their…
…express and debate ideas without fear of censorship or retaliation—in the classroom or from outside the classroom. Without the freedom to engage in real debate in pursuit of truth, or…
…assault on DEI is unlikely to succeed outside of taxpayer-funded institutions in red states, whose politicians have the fortitude to withstand media misrepresentation and accusations of censorship, hypocrisy, and academic…
…liberals, and pacifists. They’ve slumbered into what they used to hate. They’ve assumed our apathy, a party to past purities, peaceful wars, and (I’ll say worst of all) censorship. The…
…activism, intimidation, or harassment. FIRE and the AFA are as opposed to indoctrination as they are to classroom censorship, and rightly so. State legislatures have the right—indeed, the obligation—to fight…
…vary significantly. [Related: “Even Liberal Students Are Afraid to Speak”] When asked about self-censorship on campus, in localized settings such as official meetings or offices of administrators, faculty, or student…
…and citizens. Government action is illiberal if it limits citizen rights (where these do not interfere with other citizens’ rights). However, government protects liberty when private censorship or illiberalism is…
…censorship, rhetorical maneuvers are required to weaken its grip. Substituting “offensive” with “harmful” serves only one purpose: to control others whose thoughts one finds personally disturbing. [Related: “Reaping Postmodernism’s Violent…
Over the past few years, I have regularly encouraged conservatives to not write off higher education. Despite the Right’s valid concerns about woke administrators, progressive faculty, student self-censorship, and hostility…
…in self-censorship for fear of being targeted, giving even more weight to the public perception that everyone is in agreement. In my case, trying to get me to state that…
…the soul of lynch mobs, hanging judges, censorship, bigotry, thuggery, sanctimony, and ward-heelery. Intersectionally incompetent and intolerant, they have forfeited, indeed recklessly squandered, the esteem their professional forefathers laboriously accumulated…
…1991, and modern universities. Krylov notes that universities are plagued by an “atmosphere of fear and self-censorship” and “an intolerance of dissenting opinions.” This, she writes, is linked to ideological…
…Denisovich. Both works capture life under tyranny—the former focuses more on censorship and the latter on dehumanization in labor camps. The imagery in these books, along with the industry murals…
…of viewpoints is always available on campus. He warned against “state-sanctioned partisan censorship” of academic research and teaching, which is now rampant. “Hyperpartisan threats, especially from the far right, to…