Pomona College. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) condemned a BDS bill passed by Pomona College’s student government that seeks to defund student clubs that do not endorse the boycott which could put campus organizations such as Hillel and Chabad at risk if they fail to divest from a United Nations Human Rights Council-drafted blacklist of major Israeli and American businesses.
“We urge Pomona’s student government to reject calls to mandate support of a boycott,” FIRE’s letter stated, arguing that the student government’s restrictions on its own internal spending would pass muster for the group.
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A law school dean says giving social media firms the power to permanently ban politicians could have serious ramifications for the future of free speech on the internet.
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discussed social media and First Amendment implications in an online panel discussion Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Pondering the free speech implications of Twitter’s lifetime ban on President Donald Trump after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, a constitutional law scholar warned Thursday that a private company’s silencing of a sitting president sets a dangerous precedent.
“I worry that if we encourage Twitter to censor Donald Trump today, tomorrow it might be my speech or your speech that gets censored,” University of California, Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Chemerinsky said.