In this specific case she was a guest of Essex University and not a tenured professor there, so they were under no specific obligation to provide a platform for

In this specific case she was a guest of Essex University and not a tenured professor there, so they were under no specific obligation to provide a platform for her. Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain’s Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University To your point though, I wouldn't find it good for a tenured professor to lose their job for such a thing. However, even the idea of tenure really is meant to be more like "freedom from interference" and not "unlimited freedom without consequences", right? And of course the tenure track prior to tenure is of course a period of intense vetting.