Is Free Speech Under Attack in this Country?
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Jaw
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nsacpi
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YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube-ban-joseph-mercola/
YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially responsible for helping seed the skepticism that’s contributed to slowing vaccination rates across the country.
As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content on the Google-owned site, YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective or dangerous. The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines, but not ones for other vaccines like those for measles or chickenpox.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube-ban-joseph-mercola/
YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially responsible for helping seed the skepticism that’s contributed to slowing vaccination rates across the country.
As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content on the Google-owned site, YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective or dangerous. The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines, but not ones for other vaccines like those for measles or chickenpox.
nsacpi
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At Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, beards have been banned on campus since the rise of the counterculture movement, when they were thought to be associated with hippies and antiwar sentiments many young people expressed in the 1960s and ’70s.
“Men are expected to be clean-shaven; beards are not acceptable,” the school’s dress and grooming standards state.
Sideburns are allowed, but they “should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek.” Mustaches must be “neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth.” These styles, the standards advise, are “consistent with the dignity adherent to representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and any of its institutions of higher education.”
sounds like a clash between freedom of expression and freedom of religion
interesting that the beard code was enacted as a reaction to the 1960s and 1970s counterculture
i believe the old-time Mormons all had rather impressive beards
“Men are expected to be clean-shaven; beards are not acceptable,” the school’s dress and grooming standards state.
Sideburns are allowed, but they “should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek.” Mustaches must be “neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth.” These styles, the standards advise, are “consistent with the dignity adherent to representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and any of its institutions of higher education.”
sounds like a clash between freedom of expression and freedom of religion
interesting that the beard code was enacted as a reaction to the 1960s and 1970s counterculture
i believe the old-time Mormons all had rather impressive beards
nsacpi
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Every few years, a group of students band together to try and change this, for the purpose of self-expression or on religious grounds. Now, Warner Woodworth, a Brigham Young University professor emeritus, has taken up the charge. What’s novel about Mr. Woodworth’s approach is his argument.
“Beards are clearly prophetic,” he wrote in a Change.org petition. “They were used by righteous men from Adam down through the ages.” Having a beard can show righteousness, he wrote — plus, “millions of men globally” wear them.
He added that “while Joseph Smith” — the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — “couldn’t grow a good beard, most of his leading Brethren could and did. Nearly all prophets, apostles and others have done so righteously and proudly.”
i love it...and fully support professor Woodworth and the students even though I myself have not worn a beard in almost 40 years
“Beards are clearly prophetic,” he wrote in a Change.org petition. “They were used by righteous men from Adam down through the ages.” Having a beard can show righteousness, he wrote — plus, “millions of men globally” wear them.
He added that “while Joseph Smith” — the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — “couldn’t grow a good beard, most of his leading Brethren could and did. Nearly all prophets, apostles and others have done so righteously and proudly.”
i love it...and fully support professor Woodworth and the students even though I myself have not worn a beard in almost 40 years
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nsacpi
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The university’s beard ban may never have been intended as permanent. “Our rules against beards and long hair are contemporary and pragmatic,” Dallin H. Oaks said in a 1971 address to students, when he was the president of Brigham Young University. (He is now the first counselor in the first presidency, or top governing body, of the church.)
In the same speech, Mr. Oaks added that beards indicated “protest, revolution and rebellion against authority” and called them “symbols of the hippie and drug culture.”
In the same speech, Mr. Oaks added that beards indicated “protest, revolution and rebellion against authority” and called them “symbols of the hippie and drug culture.”
nsacpi
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I think you are missing the whole point which was that BYU's strictures regarding beards in fact have very little to do with beards. Those strictures (at least in their initial formulation) were aimed at oppressing people with a point of view that the university did not find congenial.
Of course, it is highly fashionable (in some quarters) to criticize colleges and universities these days for that very thing, and rightfully so in some cases.
I just find it amusing that there is no similar outrage about BYU adopting measures that were aimed squarely (by the university's own admission) at those who dissented from the school's prevailing ideological orthodoxy.
C'est la vie.
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Jaw
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Sorry, I wasn't posting on Chop Country in the 70s. I am pro beard though.
