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UC Berkeley gives personal information for 150 students and staff to government
- xdi 1y ago[flagged]
- ChrisArchitect 1y ago[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235003
- osnium123 1y agoIn UC Berkeley’s defense, the alternative would be an immediate cut to all research funding and worse so this was the best they could do.
- etc-hosts 1y agoHarvard and Columbia are both learning that giving in to the current administration's demands doesn't actually get them off your back, it actually emboldens them to demand even more.
- acomjean 1y agoI think, you mean Columbia and Brown. Harvard took the government to court won,though it will be appealled but they havent settled yet (that I know of.) I think the government is asking government 1 billion from UCLA .
- thrownawayohman 1y ago[flagged]
- hahaxdxd123 1y agoVery normal thing to happen… in Maoist China or Stalin’s Russia.
- __loam 1y agoOr McCarthy's America.
- travisgriggs 1y agoAnd this time, we’re simply paranoid about ourselves
- MangoToupe 1y agoBoth of those people engaged in summarily executing hundreds of thousands of people for their political views. We aren't there yet.
- Gigachad 1y agoAnd yet every day the state of things marches that way which minimal opposition.
- MangoToupe 1y agoWe may never go that direction. I'd guess our flavor of evil will be uniquely american—performative cruelty, benign neglect, feigned helplessness, sporadic senseless violence, and everyone for themselves. Trump (nor, I suspect, Vance, or Thiel behind him) strike me as very much like Mao or Stalin at all.
- SilverElfin 1y agoAnd also both of those people practiced ideologies associated with the left.
- MangoToupe 1y agoThere is no political movement with any weight in this country remotely comparable to either the bolsheviks or the maoists. The closest we got to that in living memory was probably the black panthers and they were successfully (and bloodily, brutally) put down and scattered to the wind. Now we are all trapped in highly personalized crazy houses, halls of mirrors, where nothing is real and our very views of reality are too warped for us to assemble into coherent organized political movements. The exception, perhaps, being capital itself, able to whip masses of people into hysteria or discombobulated confusion while rich vampires suck the life out of this country and leave us a schizo husk muttering to ourselves about free speech, the constitution, and cancel culture. So excuse me if I roll my eyes anyone tries to compare anyone in this country to "left" movements around the world. We are too insane and don't have the spine to move that way.
- spicyusername 1y agoI feel like I understand so much better what living through the cold war era must have been like, when "being a communist" was the excuse de jure.
- morkalork 1y agoSeeing now multiple television personalities ran off air does give a certain "Hollywood Blacklist" vibe
- erxam 1y agoIt still is. The 'enemy' died, the (manufactured) fear didn't.
- thrownawayohman 1y agoYou’re getting downvoted but it’s true. If you don’t mourn who the state deems you to mourn your suspicious and thousands of people will attempt to get you fired. If you criticize the current government, you’re an agitator. If you think something that is in opposition to the current administration, your a socialist commie
- gabinator 1y ago[flagged]
- thrownawayohman 1y agoWhat the hell are you on about mate
- joules77 1y agoDuring the Cold War the Russians were quite happy to fund protests everywhere especially on college campuses which are easy targets. But that was a super power influencing things. This time around its this weird micro nation with 300K people that has got it into its head, it can exert global influence by throwing oil money around. But this is not the football world cup. Historically there are really no examples of such small countries exerting so much influence before it is all shut down by larger powers. Expect ofcourse with the Vatican. But that is centralized religion with "citizenship" across borders. Qatar meanwhile barely has enough people to defend a town, and already experienced a backlash in 2017 with a blockade. This is the second round. Watch them retreat back to sports by the end of the decade. Small countries and Geopolitical Power are not compatible.
- neom 1y agoIf you're curious about the technicalities, it seems it's: This (the power to audit): https://rpp.wtgrantfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/03-USED_FERPA-Guidance-for-Reasonable-Methods-and-Written-Agreements.pdf https://rpp.wtgrantfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09... Plus this (the audit itself): https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of...
- ghostly_s 1y agoThis seems to grant institutions permission to share PII for purpose of an audit, not compel them to do so.
- globalhsbc 1y ago[dead]
- laborcontract 1y agoThis is clearly bothersome, and this administration bothers me at a deep level. One open question I have is: how do we keep the temptation at bay for subsequent administrations, democratic or republican, from exercising unilateral power at such scale? Clearly it's to curtail the power of the executive, but I'm afraid that neither will resist the temptation to (over)correct or double down, respectively
- xdi 1y ago[flagged]
- ghostly_s 1y agoGood thing that's not happening, then.
- xdi 1y ago[flagged]
- an0malous 1y agoWhat was the harassment? Because it often seems that when you dig into these accusations, they’re counting protesting against Israel or wearing a keffiyeh as acts of antisemitism.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> what was the harassment? At least in New York, there was legitimate conflation between believing Israel has a right to exist and supporting a genocide.
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- laborcontract 1y agoI think it's possible to be bothered by your claim, the extermination of palestinians, and the consolidation of executive power.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago150 out of 45,000+ is just over 0.3%.... not a big number. Wait till they find out Google will also happily hand over your information when the government or law enforcement demands it.
- selcuka 1y ago> 150 out of 45,000+ is just over 0.3%.... not a big number. It's a big deal when it's targeted. It basically means that "you may be in the next 0.3%": > One campus graduate student, who received the message and was provided anonymity due to fears of retaliation, claimed the release targeted Muslim and Arab individuals who had previously expressed support for Palestine.
- xdi 1y ago[flagged]
- selcuka 1y agoThat's what we hear. I wouldn't trust one side's story only: > The student claimed they had been the subject of a false report of antisemitism to the campus Title IX and XI Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination, or OPHD. They said other students who received the notification had OPHD cases that were determined to be unsubstantiated or stand open. Also antisemitism is a red herring. It just fits today's narrative.
- grafmax 1y agoCurious what antisemitic abuse Judith Butler was supposedly expressing.
- _DeadFred_ 1y ago[flagged]
- mullingitover 1y agoDo you believe it’s possible to oppose the human rights abuses committed by the state of Israel without being antisemitic? Do you think it’s ethical to conflate these two distinct activities?
- pelagicAustral 1y ago[flagged]
- stanislavb 1y agoWhy was this flagged? Political?
- josefresco 1y agoNo, plenty of political posts don't get flagged. However on Hacker News posts critical of the current US administration are very often flagged. In fact, there's two examples right now on the Active threads page; https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active
- Sabinus 1y agoIf the situation looks bad for the Trump admin then the comments will deservedly lambast his actions. But that's incendiary politics so flagged, not for this website etc. If the situation looks ambiguous for the Trump admin then we're allowed to discuss it because then the discussion is nice and calm and centrist and technocratic. That's the vibe I'm getting these days.