Women’s Groups Urge Colleges and Government to Rein In Social Media

Submitted by ThomasI on Sun, 2015-10-25 09:25

Article here. Excerpt:

'Seventy-two women’s and civil-rights groups on Wednesday announced a campaign to enlist the federal government in pressuring colleges to protect students from harassment via anonymous social-media applications like Yik Yak.

The groups have sent the U.S. Education Department a letter calling for it to treat colleges’ failure to monitor anonymous social media and to pursue online harassers as a violation of federal civil-rights laws guaranteeing equal educational access.

The letter says many colleges have cited "vague First Amendment concerns" to shirk their obligation to respond to harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior via such applications. It calls on the department’s Office for Civil Rights to require colleges to fight such online abuse by taking steps like identifying and disciplining perpetrators and creating technological barriers to the use of social-media applications that harassers favor.'

But if you read the article, you will see that what REALLY upsets them is the hostile comments on feminism.

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IF you read the article, you will see that what REALLY upsets the feminists is the hostile comments on feminism.

There are so few cases of violence and when it does happen, Yik Yak complies with the police subpoena.

But that's not good enough for them. They want all critical speech of feminizm stopped.

And I point out that this article is VERY RARE in that: The Chronicle has suspended the comment section.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Sun, 2015-10-25 09:27