On Campus, Freedom's Just Another Word for Before Covid

Real Clear Investigations ^ | September 28, 2020 | Steve Miller

[CheshireTheCat]

Colleges across the country are using new surveillance tools and following movements of students to blunt the spread of COVID-19. But while school administrators say the actions are necessary, civil libertarians fear the measures may last far beyond the pandemic.

At Albion College in Michigan, students are tracked by an app they are required to download and must ask permission to leave town. Oklahoma State University is using its wireless network to track students, promising to delete all information from the system after seven days.

Students at Oakland University in suburban Detroit are asked to wear the BioButton, a quarter-sized disk that attaches to the body and provides real-time health status to the developer, which will report to the administration anyone showing “early signs” of a coronavirus infection.

The school initially made the BioButton mandatory, but backed down after resistance from students, many of whom felt the device was an unnecessary tracking mechanism.

“This is something straight out of Fahrenheit 451 or 1984,” one student commented on the Change.org petition that successfully opposed the requirement.

Universities and colleges have millions of dollars at stake in keeping students on campus as they grapple with the financial losses that followed their decision to shut down last spring when the coronavirus was first detected....

[CheshireTheCat]

They are going to lose millions in future donations from current students that will never materialize.

[libertylover]

In my view, this is not even close to being Constitutional.

[Seruzawa]

LOL. Fascist Educrats. Sniveling bureaucrats exercising their pathetic little power over others. Slimy little toads behind desks. The sort of nasty prying people who call the cops if you park a non-running car in your driveway for a couple of weeks.

[Truthoverpower]

Ding ding ding! You have absolutely hit the nail on the head

all of these government overreach is have already been challenged in court and they’ve already lost in different states

but very soon they’re all going to be set in stone and the government never gonna be able to do this crap again

For example declaring one business “essential” and another business “nonessential”

Or staying out in open space that you have to wear a face covering

Never mind forcing you to get some vaccine for putting a tracking device on you

No I do believe that the one acceptable and logical way to assess people is a temperature check

Otherwisethey’re all violations of freedom liberty and the Constitution