Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to ...
Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to write phony apologies.
This is right out of the authoritarian playbook -- and it craps on every notion of freedom of expression.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/nyu-protests-apology-letters.htmlYou don't have to agree with the protestors' politics. But you should damn well understand that America is in wave of McCarthyism right now.
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