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> you can say what you like (as long as you're not inciting crime or violence.) But whatever reason is to forbid inciting crime or violence is equally valid to
by nomdep 5y ago
> you can say what you like (as long as you're not inciting crime or violence.)
But whatever reason is to forbid inciting crime or violence is equally valid to forbid inciting firing or un-inviting someone isn’t it?
- randallsquared 5y agoAbsolutely not. Crime/violence are taking something from someone. Firing/uninviting are deciding not to trade with someone.
- sokoloff 5y agoThere’s clearly a line somewhere, otherwise there’s no point in speech (if it cannot be used to influence others in even the smallest of ways). While I don’t think MIT made the best call here, I think that Twitter users (mobs or otherwise) should be free to ask MIT to do this. I would have preferred that MIT had professionally yet firmly declined as the controversy is unrelated to the topic. (IMO, they’d be wise to avoid having a flat-Earther present at an EAPS event, but that’s not the analog here.)