Posted on 08/09/2018 10:09:32 PM PDT by babyfreep
College applicants are being rejected for merely following the Alex Jones account on Twitter, a digital privacy expert has warned.
Bradley Shear, who runs the Shear on Social Media Law blog, claims one of his clients was rejected from a prestigious college after an admissions interviewer scoured the student’s social media account and found he followed Alex Jones on Twitter.
While one of my legal clients (a 17 year old teen) was being interviewed by one of the most competitive colleges in the country he was asked why he was following Alex Jones on Twitter. My client, a teenager expected to talk about his stellar grades, top test scores, amazing extracurricular activities and volunteer work, but the interviewer focused on who he was connecting with online. My client had never “liked” or re-tweeted any of Mr. Jones’ content. His alleged “transgression” was that he followed Mr. Jones on Twitter. That was it.
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Colleges choosing students for their group-think is very discriminatory. It is a backdoor way of applying all kinds of bias. And once the do it, can they say it is not because of race, religion, ethnicity? Consider, for the sake of conversation, that someone black and Islamic of Arab decent is unlikely to listen to Alex Jones. Thus, the pattern that maybe it takes White, Christian, and European. The exclude these folks is discriminatory.
The hard to believe part is the interview. I didn’t go on one
and I don’t know of any of the schools I considered applying to didn’t have them either.
[The hard to believe part is the interview. I didn’t go on one
and I don’t know of any of the schools I considered applying to didn’t have them either.]
This is outrageous that a college would look at your Social Media.
Who you like politically is all subjective. Only an Auhoritrlarn control freaks would say their is only one political opinion and everything else is hate.
Completely insane!
Most assuredly, the schools’ charters do not include permission to proselytize students on loony left issues.
It is entirely possible that a school’s federal offenses may include, but not be limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government,
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a public enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers should demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
WRT shutting out conservatives....here’s something you can do right now. ACTION NOW——THEY NEED TO GET THOUSANDS OF LETTERS INFORMING THEM YOU ARE COMMISSIONING AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF THE SCHOOL’S FINANCES AND HANDLING OF PUBLIC MONIES.... .for the following reasons:
According to the Association of CPA’s, an audit is a systematic and independent examination of books, accounts, statutory records, documents and vouchers of an organization (non-profit or publicly-held) to ascertain authenticity of financial statements as well as non-financial disclosures and to codify that the account presents a true and fair view of the issues at hand.
An audit also attempts to ensure that the account is properly maintained as required by federal and state law. The auditor perceives and recognises the issues, and conducts a examination, obtains evidence, evaluates the same, and formulates an opinion on the basis of informed judgement which is communicated through an audit report.
Issues such as colleges receiving federal and state tax dollars, applying for public monies, disposition of public monies, billing procedures, and the detailed reporting of these issues. This includes the federal government, state government, the SEC, Banking oversight agencies, ERISA, insurance and other liability companies.
Areas commonly audited include: compliance audits, internal controls, quality management, project management, and collection and disposition of public monies. As a result of an audit, principles and stake-holders may effectively evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, for the edification of the relevant federal and state governance agencies and taxpayers with a financial stake in the subject matter.
Financial audits are commonly performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information, as well as to provide an assessment of a system’s internal control. As a result of this, each party can have an accounting given on financial statements based on on the audit evidence obtained.
Due to constraints and limitations that might be placed on the auditor, an audit seeks to provide reasonable assurance that the statements are free from material error. In the case of financial audits, a set of financial statements are said to be true and fair when they are free of material misstatements – a concept influenced by both quantitative (numerical) and qualitative factors.
Copies of the audit are to be provided to federal and state governments, taxpayers, including legal oversight agencies, liability companies and oversight agencies, and officials of the state and federal government deemed stakeholders in the resultant financial accounting.
Incidents like these are why school and college academic accreditation should come from the Federal Government instead of private organizations. That way when schools or colleges engage in malfeasance or discrimination, the Feds can revoke the schools accreditation.
Here is a list of colleges that conduct admission interviews: https://blog.prepscholar.com/full-list-of-colleges-that-require-interviews. Some are required, some are recommended, and others are merely optional.
Universities now have their own secret police
These are who would take the guberment over in the future
It is discriminating by “creed”, which most universities claim not to do and in some states is illegal.
...”Colleges choosing students for their group-think is very discriminatory. It is a backdoor way of applying all kinds of bias. And once the do it, can they say it is not because of race, religion, ethnicity? Consider, for the sake of conversation, that someone black and Islamic of Arab decent is unlikely to listen to Alex Jones. Thus, the pattern that maybe it takes White, Christian, and European. The exclude these folks is discriminatory.”...
Bigotry is not really about the color of our skins. It is about punishing those who do not enter into the “group think,” which will usher in the dictatorship. Why can our people not see what is happening under our noses? Colleges are supposed to be about freedom of thought and intelligent debate. That is the only way truth can be found. What we have now is unsustainable and will end badly. When people are afraid to speak up, do their inner thought and views go away? No, they will be expressed in other ways and, eventually, through violence.
One of these days, folks are gonna pay for what they’ve done. I don’t care for Alex Jones, but you can’t do that to people.
College would do better to ban any applicants who post fish faces and stick out their tongues.
The essay portion of the SATs are graded by ‘school teachers’, meaning public school teachers, meaning that 90% of the people grading the essays are America-hating Leftists (you know, the same people we all send our kids to every morning to get indoctrinated and sexualized).
Given that, I told my kids to respond in kind when writing their ‘stories’ for the SAT and be sure to put in some kind words for Al Gore, Climate Change, President Obama, etc.
They did and their grades were on the essays were excellent.
Bottom line: Until we change things, we must play by THEIR RULES - they own it, we don’t. And if that means that our kids (and sometimes ourselves, especially if we work in tech) have to keep secret our fondness for Alex Jones, Rush, FR, and others, well we better do that, or expect consequences from our Leftist masters.
...until people with money ON OUR SIDE start to take control of these platforms, which doesn’t seem to be happening, at all.
Just looked at a liberal follower of me on twitter. He is following a whole bunch of resistors, trump haters, Stormy Daniels, and Alex Jones.
I tend to agree...I think the interviews are more to find FLAWS with the students, than to find qualified students. And if a student isn’t well-prepared for the interview, they will get clobbered, as most other students at competitive colleges are well-prepared (via expensive coaching). I learned that the hard way, being rejected from top schools, only to be accepted by the one top school that I did NOT interview with. I made sure my kids didn’t make that mistake!
I also agree regarding the quotas...my kids are half Asian, but you’d never know it with their names - I think it helped a lot that the schools had no clue about their mom’s background.
H.R. departments are scouring 20 years of internet postings to reject conservative applicants.
That is mind-blowing. I see the reasoning here, but I'm not sure allowing *them* to push us farther underground is the answer.
My kids are all grown, but I do have a son with an MBA from an online university. He's still taking even more online college courses (and he's the one who hated school the most...go figure). He's in another state, so I don't get to talk to him as much as I'd like, but I plan to ask him if he has experienced this same type of prejudice in his internet schooling.
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