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A Call to Action: Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse! (netzpolitik.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could imagine universities would not be jumping at the chance to have to moderate something, while also running very close to violating the First amendment if they removed any speech from that platform.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the first amendment only applies in one country

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True, but many constitutions have similar clauses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not really, and it's not that big of an issue in general. Most of Europe has laws against the non-educational/historical display of authoritarian symbols for example.

Also on point to the topic, the municipality of Amsterdam runs its own Mastodon instance which is read-only.