WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain 'traceability' for messages as part of 2021's IT rules (Russell Brandom / Rest of World)

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As she tried to break free, one UCLA student journalist said, she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.
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Pressed to back up his claims that 'outside agitators' co-opted Columbia's protests, Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly mentioned a woman on campus whose husband was 'convicted for terrorism.'

I spoke to that woman – a 63-year-old retired teacher – earlier today. apnews.com/article/columb…

The free-speech absolutist has logged on!

As the Indian government expands its powers over online speech, the threat of a full-scale WhatsApp ban is closer than it’s been in years

New from Russell Brandom
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In addition to the surveillance motivation, the underlying governmental outlook has a greater than typical appetite for protectionism/nurturing national champions. Good chance they won’t blink on this

“There is no way to predict which message a government would want to investigate in the future.” restofworld.org/2024/exporter-…

The NYPD has done nothing to back up its 'outside agitator' nonsense and is clearly hoping people just stop asking about it but Christopher Robbins won't stop asking about it until they told him to stop yelling.

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I remember covering the Hong Kong student protesters, who withstood police thanks to heat-resistant gloves, respirators, hand-signals, drivers, food donation networks, housing shares, masks, shields, and volunteer medics.

Chains seem relatively simple in comparison ...

Left the house just now and shocking to see that outside agitators appear to have brought their tactical grade insurgency equipment to our block

The police intervention at Columbia and other schools is appaling. The time has come for the US to adopt the (Mexican) principle of university autonomy: cops and soldiers are barred from entering campuses by federal law.

'If Palestinians don’t exist, then who is dying? ... It’s a cruel self-fulfilling prophecy—claim that Palestinians were never there, and do away with them when they continue to prove otherwise.' theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

NYPD beats up some students and faculty and it’s basically Iwo Jima.

If university professors were being beaten up and hospitalised in China or Russia for protesting the actions of their government it would lead the liberal news for weeks

Here's a recording of WKCR tonight from around 9:10 to 10:15. Mortifying
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Once again, the tools and methods of the left are turned against it.

What does it mean