Some of the universities mentioned in the article are public institutions. SCOTUS held in Healy v James that the 1st Amendment applies to public universities. So some of the actions could be considered 1st Amendment violations.
HenchmanNumber3
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- Protest X
- X doesn't like you protesting them
- You protest where X can't see or hear you
- ...?
- ~~Profit!~~ Effective protest!
Sure, or they could even protest separately at home where no one can see or hear them. That'll be effective too!
Except these restrictions prevent speech, not harm.
That's a false dilemma. There's a middle ground between allowing only approved speech and allowing any speech whatsoever. And we already make that distinction. Fascists don't believe in free speech and threaten the rights of others through threats of violence, which isn't protected speech. Likewise fraud, libel, slander, blackmail, false advertising, and CSAM aren't protected and are considered harmful.
Driving predictably. Millions of people do it every day and it prevents accidents, which saves lives.
The people who could have possibly predicted that were also fired.
If I have to wait for an employee to unlock an item, I'm just buying it somewhere else, whether it's online or another brick and mortar that doesn't make me beg to spend money there. Same with stores that have passcode locks on their bathroom doors. I'm not asking a retail worker for permission to pee.
Referencing people whose communication styles are notoriously difficult to understand for average people is not great support for your point.
Are you there, god? It's me, government-sanctioned christofascist book banning.
Backup ASAP as thoroughly possible and accept you'll probably need to start over. Schedule backups more often in the future as a lesson learned.
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