Why doesn't y/a honor free speech in the way that Colombia U does?!?
I'm sure they don't expell their students for expressing strong viewpoints! Are institutes of higher learning not businesses as well?
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YA is a private business.
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I have no respect for Columbia Univ...
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Columbia doesnt honor free speech or they would allow military recruiters on their campus, which they dont.
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Yahoo is a business, not the US government. The Constitution only protects a citizens free speech from governmental interference. Please read the Constitution for more details. The point is that a business (SOME of which are institutions of higher learning) have the ability to decide what speech they will allow and what they won't. This means they still do not support free speech, as free speech means it cannot be impaired.
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Yet another person who doesn't understand what "free speech" means
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Y!A is controlled mainly by other posters reporting abuse. I am not sure how it works (i.e., how many reported abuses for a violation or how many violations to have your account deleted). Columbia doesn't honor free speech for conservative speakers such as the minutemen. The students attacked him physically. So much for free speech.
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Privately owned businesses aren't required to supply a public soapbox.
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Columbia U doesn't honor free speech or they would allow any party to speak and also allow Military to speak.
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Oi... Columbia is handled just like Yahoo. Each has its own free speech rights that cannot be taken away. The individuals within have free speech rights, but those do not apply when on property not owned by themselves or publically. You cant go spout off about how horrible you think Jews are in the mall, but you can do it on your front lawn. They can remove you from the mall just like they can remove you from Yahoo or from a University. The best part of this is that when the situation was reversed a few years ago and liberal professors were fired from a conservative school for what they said, conservatives kept saying that the school's free speech rights gave them the ability to do it. In both cases I supported the schools. Dont be a hypocrite, form a belief and stick to it based on the belief, not based on how it helps or hinders your own agenda.
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About 50 years the liberals ( at that time the communists and socialist in RUSSIA, still existed) made the decision that to gain control of the USA, the best way was to infiltrate the educational system, and "indoctrinate the young" at every opportunity !!! The liberals at that time made concerted efforts and gained control of virtually all of the PUBLIC education system. Have you noticed whenever the subject of 'school vouchers' comes up, it is the 1. Liberal Politicians, 2. The teachers / University Professors who start screaming, belittling, downgrading the private schools??? FREE SPEECH is protected by the liberals, FOR THE LIBERALS and THEY ARE THE BIGGEST ABUSERS OF WITHHOLDING THAT RIGHT FROM ANY ONE WHO IS IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THEIR PHILOSOPHY !!! Columbia is but a snow flake atop a huge iceberg.
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