California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education

Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by polygamous_bat on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:56PM (#36910646)

> Public institutions have a duty to the public that should be above any “self preservation” to protect itself.

Do you hold the same beliefs for publicly traded companies? Or do you just have unreasonable bars for government institutions only?

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Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by fluoridation on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:16PM (#36910963)

How is that relevant? Because both have the word "public" in their descriptions?

(Incidentally, I think a lot of ills in the modern world exist because of companies that exist only to increase their value in stock exchanges, rather than to be useful.)

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Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by prepend on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:06PM (#36913999)

The state exists for the people. They serve me (and you).

Publicly traded corporations are very different.

My tax dollars pay for the government to operate and collect data. Not so much for publicly traded companies.

That being said, for publicly traded corporations there are regulations on what data they must release, but I think it’s mainly about financial performance.

So a private education system would not need to release anonymized data on its students. But a public education system has a legal duty.

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