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*** This report may not be accurate. Times of India is the only outlet reporting it. ***
Hundreds of international #students have received an email telling them their #visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus #activism or #SocialMedia posts.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #Education #Universities #Colleges #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState
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Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism
US News: Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus act.Lubna Kably (Times Of India)
Elon #Musk pressured #Reddit’s CEO on content #moderation
source: theverge.com/command-line-news…
It's all about free speech, isnt it Elon? (But only the way you want it ...)
#censorship #freespeech #freedom #usa #politics #doge #news #internet
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
While Elon Musk was publicly calling out Reddit users for banning X links and threatening DOGE employees, he was also privately pressuring CEO Steve Huffman.Alex Heath (The Verge)
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#socialmedia #reddit #lemmy #antifascism #freespeech #elonmusk #fediverse
The #Trump admin is trying to deport *another* student, 21-yr-old #YunseoChung, a legal permanent resident, under the statute authorizing Secy of State #MarcoRubio to remove people deemed threat. She's lived here since childhood.
Chung wasn’t a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement, she only attended a few.
The #US is seeking to deport a person w/a #GreenCard since she was a child because she went to a #protest.
#law #immigration #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
Another case like #MahmoudKhalil & #BadarSuri:
On March 15, #MomodouTaal, a #CornellUniversity PhD student w/ #UK & #Gambia citizenship, here on a #StudentVisa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn #Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism”.
This morning at 12:52AM, the #DOJ emailed asking him to come to #ICE to be detained & put into removal proceedings.
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#immigration #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly
"The tactics have unnerved foreign tourists and sent a chill through immigrant communities in the United States, who say they are being targeted for speech — not for breaking any laws."
nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/poli…
#usa #freespeech #tourism #immigrants #vance #trump
Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the administration scrutinizes green card and visa holders who have expressed opposition to its policies.Zolan Kanno-Youngs (The New York Times)
Digital imperialism: How US social media firms are using American law to challenge global tech regulation
Trump Media and Rumble joining X in legal fight against the Brazilian Supreme Court marks a new era of deregulation pushes.The Conversation
This is beyond…
#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines.Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)
#freespeech
Alien and Sedition Acts were reviled in their time, and John Adams was not sorry to see them go
John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the press would mean the end of the republic.The Conversation
The #Trump admin announced on Friday that it had canceled $400M in federal grants & contracts to #ColumbiaUniversity because of what it described as the school’s failure to protect #Jewish students from harassment.
On Monday, #LindaMcMahon, the secy of #education, had warned that #Columbia would face the loss of federal funding if it did not take additional action to combat antisemitism on campus.
#USpol #law #FreeSpeech #ChristianZionism
nytimes.com/live/2025/03/07/us…
The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
Trump Live Updates: News on Russia Sanctions, Iran Talks, Student Loans and MoreSharon Otterman (The New York Times)
Trump Brings Back Free Speech By [Checks Notes] Threatening To Imprison Protestors And Expose Journalist Sources
It is almost difficult to believe this is a real thing that happened with the President of the United States, but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday. In the morning, Donald Trump threat…Techdirt
Starting Wed, >100k people, many of them parishioners at #BlackChurches, are pledging to abstain from shopping at #Target, part of a 40-day nationwide #boycott of the retail giant more than a month after the company abandoned its #diversity, #equity & #inclusion initiatives.
The effort, led by prominent faith & #CivilRights leaders such as Pastor Jamal Bryant, includes Atlanta, Houston, Jacksonville, & Alexandria.
#economy #FreeSpeech #law #USpol #Trump #discrimination
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