This "code of conduct" is BS anyways. You don't get banned from KiA2 for stuff you said in other forums. There's a fine line between freedom of association and acting as another form of police. It starts with not being satisfied with merely avoiding people you don't like and starting to pressure other people. Policing is just freedom of association scaled up. But I don't care whether it is the government doing it. Anyone who applies pressure in this systematic fashion is really now engaging in anti-speech and anti-freedom-of-association activities.
I don't know that it's avoidable. Someone has to decide who is and isn't allowed to be part of a college. Even forums need moderators. When you setup some kangaroo court to figure it out, though, I'd say you've crossed that line into anti-speech.
Frankly, I'd be better off with the colleges, being government institutions, just allowing damn near everything except the obvious stuff like defamation and incitement. It can create a kind of hostile environment, but if there's ever a place where all ideas need to be able to be voiced, it's government forums, which Universities are supposed to be.
Yeah private and public is very mixed when all of the institutions -- public and private -- are reliant on government funding. Some private schools even have dedicated state or federal revenues from back in the day.
This "code of conduct" is BS anyways. You don't get banned from KiA2 for stuff you said in other forums. There's a fine line between freedom of association and acting as another form of police. It starts with not being satisfied with merely avoiding people you don't like and starting to pressure other people. Policing is just freedom of association scaled up. But I don't care whether it is the government doing it. Anyone who applies pressure in this systematic fashion is really now engaging in anti-speech and anti-freedom-of-association activities.
I don't know that it's avoidable. Someone has to decide who is and isn't allowed to be part of a college. Even forums need moderators. When you setup some kangaroo court to figure it out, though, I'd say you've crossed that line into anti-speech.
Frankly, I'd be better off with the colleges, being government institutions, just allowing damn near everything except the obvious stuff like defamation and incitement. It can create a kind of hostile environment, but if there's ever a place where all ideas need to be able to be voiced, it's government forums, which Universities are supposed to be.
Yeah private and public is very mixed when all of the institutions -- public and private -- are reliant on government funding. Some private schools even have dedicated state or federal revenues from back in the day.