Comment by aprilthird2021
9 months ago
The woman who had anti-Trump photos on her phone. The woman who had "sympathetic" photos of Hezbollah on the phone. The professor who attended a Pro-Palestinian protest.
I don't get it. I thought we were free speech people. Now we are literal thought police? Since when is it illegal to have a picture on your phone that isn't CSAM?
And before people ask, yes I believe in free speech for everyone, even people I dislike and don't agree with.
> I thought we were free speech people
The US were never the land of free speech (or of the free). It's all marketing.
>The woman who had "sympathetic" photos of Hezbollah on the phone Although I personally disagree with her, I think you're correct here. They clearly wanted to make an example of her.
>The professor who attended a Pro-Palestinian protest. This is disingenuous, he was the leader of the group that organizes those protests. In Europe, I probably wouldn't be welcome too long if I was the leader of a neo-nazi group while on a visa.
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