Dan Stubbs
FORGET ---- HELL
- Banned
- #21
I think this is a violation of "Equal Protection under the Law" and can be taken to court.Several Harvard students who have been accepted to Harvard but haven't attended class yet had their acceptance to Harvard withdrawn over inappropriate social media posts. Should people be held accountable for what they post online?
Harvard University reportedly pulls 10 student offers over online comments
At least 10 students who were accepted to Harvard University had their admission offers revoked because they made offensive comments online, the university's student newspaper reported.President Trump is well known to like using Twitter and has come under question about whether or not his Tweets count as official US documents. He has been involved in several Twitter wars with various celebrities and politicians, the latest the Mayor of Manchester. His Tweets haves "often undermined his own staff with "alternative facts" and could come into play during the Comey testimony.
The Harvard Crimson reported that some students in the incoming freshman class created a private Facebook group in December where they traded images and messages that were often sexually explicit and sometimes mocked racial minorities.
Trumpās tweets have āenragedā British officials ā especially those who work in counterterrorism
The BBCās Tara McKelvey reports that Trumpās tweets attacking London Mayor Sadiq Khan have āenragedā government officials, āespecially those who work in counterterrorism.ā
Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst, tells the BBC that he doesnāt blame U.K. counterterrorism officials for being furious at Trump for attacking Londonās mayor.
Loose lips sink ships?
President Trumpās Tweets Are A Gold Mine For Foreign Intelligence
Are President Trumpās tweets dangerous to our national security? I posed this question on Twitter, and immediately was deluged by the usual flood of partisan answers. The presidentās supporters think itās wonderful that Trump bypasses the media filter and speaks his mind directly to the voters. The presidentās detractors think heās revealing a neurotic personality and that his aides should take his phone away from him.
I approached the question differently. As I watched Trump fulminate against hearings in the Senateāduring which former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified that she warned the White House about fallen National Security Adviser Mike Flynnās Russian connectionsāit occurred to me that I was getting a real-time look at how the president of the United States reacts to stress.
More important, it also occurred to me that I was not the only one getting a raw feed of the presidentās thoughts and emotions. I realized that any foreign intelligence analyst worth his or her salt was almost certainly taking copious notes.
I doubt this will happen:
Big changes reportedly coming to how Trump manages Twitter account
The White House source told The Wall Street Journal administration staffers wanted to create a system to limit Trumpās Twitter autonomy so that his tweets ādonāt go from the presidentās mind out to the universe.ā
It's absurd to even suggest one can make statements -- in whatever medium --- and then not be responsible for them. What the repercussions handed down as a result are, is an entirely different question.
"Whatever medium" absolutely includes this one. Dishonest posters here are constantly making assertions they can't back up and posting outright fabrications. Even posing the question suggesting they have an "out", only reinforces that blatant dishonesty.
"Once a bell has rung, you cannot unring it". Once a statement is made, it becomes reality. Reality is not negotiable.