Re:University of Oregon will monitor students' social media ...
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:05PM
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> I'm OK with this, as long as the terms are well-defined and there is some form of recourse or due process for cases of mistaken and/or abusive accusations.
What about mistaken and/or abusive applications of the process? What if you need protection, not from a student, but from an administrator?
> Should the school have the ability censure a student who posts openly hateful things on Twitter? I think they should; in my opinion, it's not different from shouting those hateful things at passersby on the campus lawn.
Twitter isn't the campus lawn. The campus lawn is university property; Twitter isn't.
Re:University of Oregon will monitor students' social media ...
by fallingknife on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:21AM
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It's not "absolutely feasible." It's already done.
significant adverse impact on the University community
Should the school have the ability censure a student who posts openly hateful things on Twitter? I think they should; in my opinion, it's not different from shouting those hateful things at passersby on the campus lawn.
Should the school have carte blanche power to monitor all social media communication by students? Probably not. But where to draw the line is tricky.
Another problem is that University administrators with this level of power are not necessarily neutral, disinterested regulators. In the current political climate, it is absolutely feasible that the definition of "adverse impact" could change shape and size depending on who is causing the adverse impact. The example in the blog post is telling.