Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ...
by ModernMech on Monday December 26, 2022 @09:25AM
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> Nobody's under the impression these policies were made for Stanford students to abide by.
This is not the impression I’ve gotten in the discussions I’ve had regarding the document.
> If Stanford is happy to employ language-policing for its IT department, it's not hard imagine similar policies creeping into place elsewhere in the institution.
To be clear, Stanford has always policed the language on its websites. Like I said, any department (in any org) that communicates with the public will police its language. The only thing notable here is that some people disagreed with the particular list of words when it was made public.
This is not the impression I’ve gotten in the discussions I’ve had regarding the document.
> If Stanford is happy to employ language-policing for its IT department, it's not hard imagine similar policies creeping into place elsewhere in the institution.
To be clear, Stanford has always policed the language on its websites. Like I said, any department (in any org) that communicates with the public will police its language. The only thing notable here is that some people disagreed with the particular list of words when it was made public.