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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by joenot443 on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:52AM (#34137605)
It's a strange premise that a department should operate in complete autonomy from its parent institution. Is that your mental model of all departments at Stanford? That they can do, say, and publish arbitrarily, and any action on the institution side is a disavowment of free speech?

That's a take on academia I'm unfamiliar with.

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by its-summertime on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:13AM (#34138220)
the premise is that a couple of people (more accurately, the CIO council) in the IT department said "I think future changes to the site should consider these points". And academia generally does have websites per department.

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Realistically, almost anyone at any university can put content onto university websites / servers. This isn't some crazy notion of website usage: the same applies to this very site too.

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