https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/10/free-speech-roundup-49/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/10/free-speech-roundup-49/comment-page-1/#comment-330223 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:30:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55804#comment-330223 […] Invoking Title IX, that law of so many uses, some identity advocates are demanding that colleges curtail student access to the chat service Yik Yak, popular for anonymous chatter on campus. While the press routinely portrays Yik Yak as a sump of digital hostility, Virginia Postrel found something quite different when she went on. “On a routine basis, the app grownups love to demonize is much friendlier than the Twitter and Facebook feeds I read daily. For reasons built into its structure, Yik Yak offers fewer rewards for mean, grouchy, tribal, and polarizing posts and more for those that are supportive, funny, inquisitive, and community-building.” Its anonymity “creates a place of support and solidarity amid academic and social struggles” [Bloomberg View, related earlier here and here] […]

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