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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by panic on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:21AM (#42887384)
This type of political movement always claims to be against the exact things they’re for. They claim to be against censorship while using their actual influence to do things like forcing TikTok to change their moderation policy. They claim to want to protect children while putting child abusers in positions of power. It gives members of the movement an easy way to deflect criticism and express their feelings of grievance—don’t you know we hate censorship, and anyway it’s you who was censoring us! It’s only fair for you to feel a little of that pain that we feel!
Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by sdenton4 on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:57AM (#42889330)
Zuckerberg coming out strong for free speech, and then sending employees who push back on anti-DEI policy changes to HR...

Free speech if you're a billionaire.

Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by outside1234 on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:56AM (#42889315)
They are against censorship of THEM not censorship of YOU
Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by malfist on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:32PM (#42890252)
It's not that hard to understand. Their view point is that there must be a class of citizens that the laws protect, but do not bind, and a class of citizens that the laws bind but do not protect.

Nothing more than feudalism 2.0