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This decision is a big f#cking deal.

It basically makes colleges responsible for the expressed OPINIONS of its students if such opinions can be viewed as potentially defamatory. And, as Oberlin points out, the only way for a university to avoid a tort is to categorically stop the students from expressing opinions.

Kinda weird that the rightwing so obsessed with “cancel culture” is basically salivating at suing universities for the speech of its students.

Read Oberlin’s appeal, the decision has huge legal ramifications:
https://www2.oberlin.edu/appeal/documents/Memo-in-Support-of-Jurisdiction.pdf

Of course, the next step to this is to sue universities if students accuse someone of being a “rapist” or “sexual harasser.”

[b]I think you are ignoring the actions of school administrators to call this holding the college responsible for student opinions. The college forced their caterer to break the caterer’s subcontract with the bakery. They actively participated in slandering the bakery. This isn’t about the students. It’s about the behaviour of the employees of the college.
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Can you show me the law where one entity/business is required to engage with a specific service provider? Thanks.

That’s literally the free market at work.z[/quote]

This is why I think the verdict was so large.  The jury was sending a message to the college that cooler heads should have prevailed at the top and reigned in the SJW administrators.  This whole situation is an illustration of the dangers of the "mob"---whether it be a January 6th mob of insurrectionists attacking the Capitol because of Trump's rhetoric or a group of lefty students being whipped up to attack a long time campus business in the name of racial equity.  Three Oberlin students BEAT a local business owner.  That is not behavior that can or should be defended by any educational institution.    The school could have handled the entire incident very differently and  brought the business and the students together for a productive, respective dialogue.    Instead, the college administrators whipped up  a mob to try to drive a long-time business owner out of business.  Oberlin is a tiny town and the college is the 900 lb. economic gorilla.   The verdict was the community's statement to the college about the misuse of that economic power.   This was an extremely costly lesson.   The president of the college should have shut those nutty deans down ASAP.

Oh, and out of curiosity---does the free marketeer poster above agree that the NFL owners have every right to use their economic monopoly to blackball Colin Kaepernick from playing pro football because of his kneeling?
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