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Amos Yee to Give Public Talk at Harvard

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 14 2017, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the dissidents-beware dept.

canopic jug writes:

Amos Yee is set to give his first ever public talk at Harvard.

Yee is a teenager from Singapore who has recently been granted political asylum in the US. He was in trouble with the Singaporean regime for repeatedly criticizing the country's late founder, Lee Kuan Yew. His treatment has been marginally better in the US. Although he was granted asylum by the US back in March, he was held in US jail until late September where he ran in to difficulties for his ongoing criticism of Islam. Currently, he is banned from Facebook for alleged, unspecified "community standards" violations. His videos are available on YouTube.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @03:37AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @03:37AM (#596647)

    The replacement would be investigating each individual case to determine if a rape occurred, if and only if there is some reason to believe that a rape occurred. You know, like we do with adults now. Or we could keep putting 18 year old kids in prison for banging some 15 year old, which is what will actually happen. Hey, I heard the brain doesn't typically finish developing until around 25! Maybe 25 should be the age of consent?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @04:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @04:41AM (#596662)

    Consider a 6-year-old girl, such as Muhammed's wife. Unless that is a really really weird 6-year-old, of strange maturity both mental and physical, something is not OK even if she says "yes". (of course we ought to allow for the strange cases, so testing is better than an arbitrary age number) Consider how in North Africa, girls get fistulas due to damage when giving birth. Their bodies are just too small.

    Consider a 6-year-old boy. Does he really understand enough to be risking child support? It isn't OK to put him at risk of that if he doesn't understand, which would be the norm for a 6-year-old. Can he hold down a job that pays enough? Perhaps such a 6-year-old exists somewhere; such a weirdo deserves a chance but normal kids aren't ready.

    Measurement is the only fair way to handle this.