Sydney University vice-chancellor gets worked up over "misogyny" of students in a male residential college, hints at closing down the college. The terrible offense? Male students referred to fat women as "whales" in Facebook comments. Seriously, that's all it was.

Lethn · 2017-06-08T11:12:57+00:00

Am I the only one who'd be glad about this? If they shut down the shit universities and colleges voluntarily that have zero respect for free speech and expression that means only the good ones will be left. In fact, precisely because of this I don't understand why this vice-chancellor is even proposing it.

2017-06-08T13:43:38+00:00

http://www.unz.com/isteve/this-will-go-on-your-permanent-record/

And because so much of today’s teen social media use is rooted in a fear of getting caught, many teens have detoured their online activity to different ways of cloaked communication. Closed and secret Facebook groups are one way teens (and adults!) privatize communication to a select group — a closed group feels more private because it allows an administrator to approve new users and monitor content...

The ready availability of tools to hide teen social media use can be problematic

Isn’t everything “problematic” these days?

… In the case of the Harvard students, administrators found out about images and messages shared within a private group chat, highlighting how easily information shared behind digital walls can quickly become more public. …

Adults need to shift the conversation

The word “conversation” doesn’t mean what it used to mean.

around teens’ social media use away from a fear of getting caught and more toward healthy socialization, effective self-regulation and overall safety.

… Because in the end, teens’ online life choices can have real-world outcomes – as those students whose admittance at Harvard was rescinded learned the hard way.

The most fascinating question is the growth of the Volunteer Auxiliary Thought Police. What motivates these finks?

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