Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer given to a high profile activist who is currently fighting a case in which he allegedly wiped a security-focused Android phone before Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could search it. The case, which 404 Media first covered and has now received widespread and national attention, has important ramifications for privacy and when someone can still be charged with an offense even if authorities don’t have suspicion of any specific crime.
Earlier this month, activist Samuel Tunick and a group of supporters delivered a “demand letter” to the university. That letter, which Tunick shared with 404 Media, says he explained to the university he was facing a pending charge, which he describes as “an instance of textbook political repression, and a high profile civil liberties case.”
While delivering the letter, supporters held signs saying, “GSU sides with Trump,” and “Digital Privacy Under Attack!”
Coward university siding with fascists.
Because fascists are known to be good for centers of education.
Universities will always side with whoever has more money. They will act like students matter, but students and faculty are just annoying inconveniences. Their administration must grow to justify itself.
It’s weird how different systems all over the US sound suspiciously familiar, right? Almost as if corruption is just the means of doing business now. The world wonders how Trump can be allowed to continue and it is because the powerful in government, in finance, in business, in the media, and now in education do nothing if not for the almighty dollar and the goal of profit and personal enrichment. The empire is collapsing under their dancing feet.
Tortious interference?I guess there’s no real case for that
Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. -Winston Churchill
I wonder if he was thinking of Chamberlain when he said that. Prior to Churchill taking power, both Britain and France refused to ally with the USSR, hoping that Nazi anti-communist aggression would lead Germany to attack the Soviets first. Instead, Stalin outmaneuvered all of them and formed a non-aggression pact with Germany, leading Hitler to his conquest of Western Europe. And in the meantime, the USSR built up their war industry so that when the inevitable happened, they were able to weather the Nazi onslaught and win the war.
If Britain and France had allied with the USSR in the first place, I wonder how much more quickly the Nazis would have been defeated.
They always think they’ll be special