This will be of direct relevance to the many institutions that use MS Teams: "Making a sudden appearance in the company's 365 roadmap, this new feature has a harsh title: 'Microsoft Teams: Chat supervisors can delete messages.'" What I find noteworthy is the perspective offered in the article. Exercising control over the discussion is deemed to be bad. "Who will decide what is inappropriate, off-topic or even 'other'? Are we really speaking of the speech-police here?" Now I'm willing to go to some lengths to defend free speech - but not on other people's websites. What to say something controversial? Build or buy your own website and say it there, like I do. Too much 'freedom of speech' debate is about the right to leverage someone else's good name and hard work to publicize your views. Universities don't have to 'balance' their curriculum with your political views, and publications don't have to cater to every perspective that exists in society.
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