Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT

Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by contrast on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:17AM (#32899519)

Do you have any evidence to support your assertion here? It seems to me that promoting well practiced liars has rarely resulted in reasoned discussions.

Nor does compelling people to promote bad faith actors seem to me anything other than another method of suppression. Compelled speech is not free speech.

Let individuals and individual institutions apply some judgement, as if they were living, breathing human beings able to make choices.

If a university demonstrates consistently poor judgement, that problem will not be solved by having event organisers who believe they are unable to make their own choices.

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Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by naasking on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:54AM (#32900027)

You've implicitly assumed that "hosting" implies "promoting". Rather, hosting liars is in fact the best way to expose their lies.

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Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by himinlomax on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:16PM (#32901135)

> Do you have any evidence to support your assertion here?

That wasn't an assertion, and there was nothing requiring evidence.

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Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by tomcam on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:10PM (#32902561)

You made assertions. I did not. We have a well established free speech tradition. It’s on you to prove why a place of education should shut down civil discourse that you don’t like.

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