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> Would you also have zoom suppress a SFSU lecture discussing Mein Kampf? If the speaker agreed with Mein Kampf, and was promoting it, I'd have a very hard tim
by ars 6y ago
> Would you also have zoom suppress a SFSU lecture discussing Mein Kampf?
If the speaker agreed with Mein Kampf, and was promoting it, I'd have a very hard time criticizing zoom over it.
Free speech is important, but this speaker can find her own tools to promote her terroristic ideas, zoom has no obligation to help her.
> are expected to be able to engage with controversial or wrong-headed ideas
That's a very charitable interpretation. And if in fact this was a forum to discuss ideas, with pro's and con's, I might agree. But this is simply giving a platform to a terrorist, there is no intellectual discussion going on here.
The way you wrote "discussing Mein Kampf", you are implying they would actually be discussing it. But that's not what's going on here.
It's kind of like a reverse strawman - you changed the event into a much less controversial one, and then told people they should criticize zoom for blocking it. But zoom didn't block your strawman, they blocked an actual terrorist.
- nullc 6y agoI don't know anything about the event but what was obvious in a glance at the parent article. How many orginizations should get a veto over events run by universities? Wouldn't you prefer to not run events using tools that have vetoed your decisions on appropriate materials and can be expected to do so in the future?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe US government gets a veto over the acts of its foreign military enemies. I don't see this as a Zoom issue. Have any other US-operating companies hosted this person?
- nullc 6y agoIf this were an action by the US government it would end up in court on first amendment grounds extremely quickly.