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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Fox News turns to a law professor suspended from his faculty for two years in connection with sexual harassment allegations to attack the First Amendment right of Twitter and Facebook to ban racists and insurrectionists from their platform.
Sad.
foxnews.com/opinion/twitte… #FoxNews
nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyr…
The argument is that Twitter and Facebook lose their First Amendment rights because they function as an arm of the government. Is this really the Wall Street Journal? So much for free enterprise. Pathetic.
The real law: If Twitter and Facebook want to suspend from their platforms people who use hate speech or violent speech-- or even law professors who are suspended from their faculty for sexual harassment allegations-- Twitter and Facebook could do so. They are private companies.

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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
19 Jan
Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld, currently suspended for two years over sexual harassment allegations, now attacks social media companies for banning persons who spread false information and advocate sedition.
techdirt.com/articles/20210…
The comment -- published in the Wall Street Journal of course -- is here:
wsj.com/articles/save-…
Here's the latest critic of tech companies for suspending insurrectionists, racists and liars from their platforms. Seems like a nice guy.
nytimes.com/2020/08/26/nyr…
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16 Jan
Former University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler contributed $10,000 to this PAC that pays legislators to advance its agenda for the University including Regent elections . Who’s advocating for students? Nobody with money apparently.
Most of the world has adequate government support for higher education, sensible controls on costs and free or low cost college.
Who doesn't want that? Overpaid university administrators and outgoing Education Secretaries who are billionaires.

insidehighered.com/quicktakes/202…
For more see the Maroon & Gold Political Action Committee
cfb.mn.gov/reports-and-da…
Read 6 tweets
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16 Jan
We need more government support for higher education, every penny going to cut tuition. The days of wasteful spending, university bureaucracy, and overpaid administrators and coaches are over.
Most of the world has free or low cost college. So can we.
startribune.com/university-of-…
No state should pay it's university administrators more money than the governor. The size and cost of bureaucracy in higher education is obscene.
For $174,000 Minnesota got a very good Governor @Tim_Walz to run the entire State. Running a university is not that much more complicated. Let's get real folks.

ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_stat…
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11 Jan
This group without authorization is using official University of Minnesota logos to raise PAC money for state legislators to influence key decisions about the University including in-state tuition (already sky high) and election of new Regents. Awful! Image
Contributors to this unauthorized PAC include current Regents and former presidents of the University. Using PAC money to pay off state legislators is inconsistent with the values of our University. Nobody should purport to raise PAC money on behalf of a public institution.
This group already has its paid lobbyist on the Regent Selection Committee established by the legislature under statute. Now they are raising PAC money to seal the deal. Unacceptable.
Read 4 tweets
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11 Jan
Maroon & Gold Rising, a new PAC not authorized by the University of Minnesota is using our colors and dishing out money to state legislators to buy what its backers - not the University - say are legislative priorities of the University.
Corrupt!
maroonandgoldrising.org/our-impact
"Maroon & Gold Political Action Committee distributed more than $60,000 this past year. A total of $38,000 was donated to the four legislative caucuses ... the campaigns of the most influential legislative leaders and members of the key committees who most impact the University."
This unauthorized PAC is using the colors of University of Minnesota to make political contributions and then lobby state legislators for what its organizers want -- and we can bet that a cut in student tuition is not one of them.
This must stop.
maroonandgoldrising.org/pac
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6 Jan
Time for another call to the Georgia Secretary of State to ask him to "find" 11,000 plus votes....

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Urgent call to the Georgia Secretary of State:
@KLoeffler has placed an order to sell 100,000 shares of whatever for 30,000 votes. Instructions to execute trade immediately.
Sorry @KLoeffler. The bell has rung, market is closed. No more trades.
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