The Yale Problem Begins in High School

Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:18PM (#10628608)

I didn't argue that anything was morally unassailable.

That freedom of speech includes freedom of speech criticizing others' speech acts does not mean that all speech is morally equal.

Nor, in any case, was the Hollywood blacklist a speech act; it was a conspiracy in restraint of trade.

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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by nickff on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:54PM (#10628842)

Do you think that this corporate executive will be hired in a similar role from which he was let go? If not, how is this functionally different from a blacklist (or "conspiracy in restraint of trade")?

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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:28PM (#10629044)

Since he is currently CEO of a technology company, I don't think it's anything like an industry blacklist, in effect (obviously, its nothing like it in structure, either.)

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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by nickff on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:23PM (#10629425)

Being forced to leave one of the most influential software developers, and go start a new small startup is comparable to being forced out of the major studios and starting your own. I fail to see any significant difference between what happened at Mozilla and the Hollywood blacklist.

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