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Not saying this was wrong better than doing nothing, but it reminds me of how futile and lame it is, why would you even show up if you weren’t going to do something disruptive
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Important point is that the students did not block access to the room or try to shout him down. This is how “the system of freedom of expression” (as the late YLS prof Thomas Emerson called it in his great treatise on the subject) is supposed to work.
That’s supposed to be a sarcastic comment made in jest, right?
well, it is how the us was built to work
Rumors I am a secret lib are unfounded. Seriously though - I found a pdf of “the system of freedom of expression”. I thought it might be 20 pages and I’d actually read the stupid thing. I almost started laughing when I found a pdf. Not including the technical stuff at the end - it’s 728 pages - https://ia800800.us.archive.org/14/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.129573/2015.129573.The-System-Of-Freedom-Of-Expression_text.pdf
I looked it over for a couple minutes. The book must be like a 500,000 word Bluesky shitlib post. This made me chuckle.
I did some poking around and it doesn’t seem like the book has been relevant since the 70’s. I found a review that summarized the central thesis as:
Emerson presents a theoretical defense of our system of freedom of expression and a critique of past attempts to specify the proper limits on free expression. Most importantly, Emerson proposes a theory according to which" expressions" are distinguished from" actions" and" full protection" is to be afforded to all" expressions."
Not sure what about this idea merited 700+ pages, but lawyers are pretty good at spilling ink.
Maybe if enough of them vote for Steal Musk a very fun committee could be struck.
High profile kidnappings are under appreciated in modern times.
Everyone is wearing black except for one guy in pink.
Did he just give his lecture or what though?
The OP is a senior editor at lawfaremedia.org. But she apparently only posted on Bluesky and she did so without context. It’s odd and I have no idea why.
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