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The fine folks over at The Tennessean bring us this interesting bit of news:
Inspired by a Breitbart News editor whose speeches have spurred protests at colleges across the country, state lawmakers on Thursday touted a bill that they said would protect free speech on Tennessee campuses.
While discussing the bill in a news conference, sponsors Rep. Martin Daniel and Sen. Joey Hensley referenced the protests against controversial conservative Milo Yiannopoulos, who is a senior editor at Breitbart. Violence erupted at a protest against a planned Yiannopoulos speech at the University of California, Berkeley, prompting officials there to cancel the speech. The lawmakers indicated that the violence had hampered the expression of conservative ideas at Berkeley. Similar issues have cropped up in Tennessee, they said.
Daniel, R-Knoxville, called his legislation "the Milo bill," and said it was "designed to implement oversight of administrators' handling of free speech issues."
Hensley, R-Hohenwald, said the bill was specifically tailored to defend students with conservative views that he said had been silenced in the past.
"We've heard stories from many students that are honestly on the conservative side that have those issues stifled in the classroom," Hensley said. "We just want to ensure our public universities allow all types of speech."
Glad to see my state getting this correct even though they can't pull their heads out of their asses about broadband competition.
[Ed. Note: The current bill has no summary on the Tennessee General Assembly site, but it is likely similar or identical to the previous year's version from the same sponsors which died in committee.]
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 12 2017, @12:06PM
FFS, who mods this shit up? Aristarchus is in effect telling us, "Censorship is bad, unless censorship conforms to my expectations!" Or, maybe more accurately, he is saying, "You're doing censorship all wrong, let me show you how it should be done!"
And, for that, he gets modded "insightful"?
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:43PM
I am convinced that this site has been targeted for wrongthink, and is being shilled on accordingly. Suddenly, after Trump's victory, this site went from about 50-50 wrongthink vs progressive, and now the modding is like 20-80.
Call me paranoid, but I can post objective fucking documented proof that the CIA was studying memes and how to control and combat them. Nothing is beyond possibility anymore.
Look up "Media Matters", their ties to Clinton, and their stated internal purpose - to "dynamically influence" opinon and content on the internet through ratings and pageviews.
Also note that major MSM sites have been buying traffic from China according to Alexa
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/fake-news-fake-stats-half-ny-times-wapo-guardian-traffic-china-wth/ [thegatewaypundit.com]
We live in dangerous times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @12:37AM
I am convinced that this site has been targeted for wrongthink, and is being shilled on accordingly. Suddenly, after Trump's victory, this site went from about 50-50 wrongthink vs progressive, and now the modding is like 20-80.
Look up "shilling", it does not mean what you think it means. And loud does not indicate numbers or even percentages. We (progressives) surround you!
Call me paranoid, but I can post objective fucking documented proof that the CIA
Oh look! Someone from Infowars! How quaint! Or it could just be that the real support for the far right in America, let alone on this site, is around 12%, same as the deadender death-eaters that supported Bush at the bitter end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @01:51AM
You surround everything in the same way that a rancid hunk of feces surrounds my cock as I push deeper and deeper into your rectum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @02:33AM
"We (progressives) surround you!"
Something like the other AC said. You surround us like the stench of meat rotting in a septic tank.