Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Why Does Dartblog Restrict Free Speech by Alumni/ae?

The daily postings by the Dartblog authors are becoming increasingly inflammatory and hostile towards the administration of President Kim. In some respects, they are shockingly controversial. Yet the Dartblog authors doggedly refuse to allow alumni/ae comments expressing any disagreement whatsoever with the content of their posts. It looks to me like they are clearly afraid of alumni/ae free speech.

Both this AoA blog and The Dartmouth daily online edition allow alumni/ae to speak freely and to make unedited, unrestricted comments often in violent disagreement with the content of our posts. But not at Dartblog, where the opposite is true: No alumni/ae disagreement allowed!

Petition trustee candidates have in the past successfully run their campaigns on now discredited platforms deploring non-existent "speech codes" at Dartmouth and otherwise purporting to be champions of alumni/ae free speech. Where are they now on this blatant repression of alumni/ae speech and opinion, where an employee of a sitting trustee operates a blog which unfairly slams one aspect or another of the College on an almost daily basis?

So how about it, Dartblog authors? Why not start allowing alumni/ae to comment on your controversial posts?



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