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Jan 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Hmm ... @babson told the @nytimes that Phansey was a staff member, not a professor. nyti.ms/2RQxe5M

Here's a screengrab of Babson's course catalogue for this semester from before he was fired:

thefire.org/babson-college…
@babson @nytimes Babson itself described Phansey as a faculty member — until it began scrubbing its website to delete mentions of his name. Unfortunately for them, Google’s cache kept copies of the pages it was deleting.
@babson @nytimes For example, here’s an April 19 profile on @Babson’s site, now memory-holed:

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@babson @nytimes To recap, Babson College has, so far, issued misleading public statements implying that there was an active law enforcement investigation and falsely claimed a faculty member was not a faculty member — all while refusing to stick by its public commitment to freedom of expression.

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Jul 1
BREAKING: Should the government have the power to dictate the opinions you see on social media?

If you said “hell no,” then we’ve got good news: The Supreme Court agrees.Image
2/ This morning, the Court rejected the idea that the government can force social media companies to host certain speech on their platforms, even if they don’t want to.

That’s a big win for free speech and a free internet.

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3/ Today’s opinion makes clear there’s no social media exception to the First Amendment.

The government can’t dictate what posts must be seen on X or Facebook any more than it can dictate what op-eds run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.
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This morning, the Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed a foundational First Amendment principle: “A government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech on her behalf.”

The Court held the @NRA plausibly alleged New York state officials violated the First Amendment by coercing financial institutions to abandon the group to punish it for its advocacy.

The Court’s decision is a resounding win for the First Amendment.Image
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3/ FIRE filed two friend-of-the-court briefs with the Supreme Court in support of the NRA’s First Amendment rights: Last April, we asked the Court to hear the case, and this January, we urged it to reach exactly today’s result.
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BREAKING: In a major win for free speech and academic freedom, @Harvard announced it will no longer make “official statements of empathy” about policy issues.Image
2/ As the full report from the faculty-led “Institutional Voice” working group says, “The purpose of the university is to pursue truth. In that pursuit, the university as an institution can never be neutral, because we believe in the value of seeking truth through open inquiry, debate, and weighing the evidence, as opposed to mere assertion or unjustified belief. . . .

The university and its leaders should not, however, issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”Image
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3/ FIRE strongly agrees. Last year, we endorsed institutional neutrality, which preserves colleges and universities’ ability to defend the rights of all students and faculty without apology or qualification.
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• Using the words ‘Zionism’ and ‘Israel’;

• Chanting "From the river to the sea;"

• Speaking in Arabic.

It's unconstitutional censorship, plain and simple.

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A public university should jump at the chance to show its commitment to the First Amendment, but UTSA ignored us.

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2/ UTSA appeared on FIRE’s radar after reports indicated an administrator directed pro-Palestinian protestors to avoid using terms officials deemed “antisemitic hate speech,” apparently in an attempt to abide by Gov. Greg Abbott’s March 27 Executive Order.
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3/ We’re grateful to the following organizations who joined FIRE and the SPLC in defending these student journalists’ rights:

College Media Association
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