Rabble-rouser,civil libertarian,Tetris addict. I run the National Coalition Against Censorship. Formerly speech @ACLU, policy @NYCLU; this soapbox is all mine.
brendan carr more or less instructed the abc affiliates to stop broadcasting kimmel's show and threatened disney's ability to broadcast abc over the air
Important marker of how much the Overton Window has shifted in five years: FCC apparatchik goes from acknowledging the concept of liberty to fully, gleefully eviscerating it. The State-->corporate censorship machine should terrify everyone. Liberty is thin on the ground today.
Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like? Of course not.
The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.”
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Truly *institutional* neutrality is one thing. This is not that. This is…a hamfisted & censorious way to sanitize dissent on campus. Barnard admin really prepared to play thought police with faculty doors and bios? …where else?
New faculty guidelines from Barnard College at Columbia University. Professors are not allowed to post signs on their door "that support a geopolitical view or perspective". When talking about "geopolitical views or perspectives", faculty must talk about both sides.
Multiple legislative sources say that Governor Hochul’s new offer to law makers is to raid the general fund for up to a billion dollars to patch up the capital plan, and then to find a congestion pricing revenue replacement when legislators come back in 2025