Flemming Rose Free Speech

US: UNIVERISTY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW STUDENT GOVERNMENT TRIES TO BAN MEAN SPEECH ON INTERNET…….

This is exactly what Jyllands-Posten’s Flemming Rose spoke about in his response to my question during the Q&A after his speech in Helsinki.

Law School Student Government Tries To Ban Being Mean On The Internet

The University of Missouri (MU) School of Law’s student government has released a new social media policy that can only be described as Orwellian in scope, threatening students with punishment if they’re mean on social media, and ordering them to report their friends … or else.

The policy, created by MU School of Law’s Student Bar Association, claims the right to dictate how students talk about essentially anything:

Before you post content to any social-media outlet affiliated, or reasonably possible to be associated with; yourself, the School of Law, the student organizations here at the school, the Missouri Bar Association, the American Bar Association, or any other legal association, and the University of Missouri, please take a moment to review our official guidelines.

If you are a member of the University of Missouri School of Law – Student Bar Association (i.e. a person enrolled in classes at the University of Missouri School of Law), then these rules apply to you.

And what do the rules say? In essence, they bar MU students from ever being not nice on the Web.

Read more: H/T: Weasel Zippers

One Response

  1. And how about the offensive language of Moslims?No comment about that now is there?

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