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   @sj_zero @NBC @realcaseyrollins agent provacateurs are nothing new. its been standard playbook for a decade.
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     One big thing is I keep hearing that many of the protestors aren't even students and don't necessarily even believe in what they're protesting but are paid professionals.
     
     I really think there's a case to be made for forcing paid protesters to disclose that they're being paid and by whom.
     
     You know me, I'm a huge supporter of the 1st amendment and free speech in general, but disingenuous astroturf protests that are paid for by moneyed interests in my view becomes more like other forms of regulated political advertising and should be treated as such.
     
     There was also an incident in the news recently that an onlyfans thot admitted to being paid by the Biden campaign to talk about how happy having minorities on the supreme court made her "as a woman of color", and that she shouldn't disclose that at all because she wasn't selling a commercial product so it would be fine. More astroturfing, and I think it's deceptive and should be treated like other deceptive advertising.
     
     When I was in college;
     
     1. I didn't have money for a nice-ass tent to go protest something that had nothing to do with me. Many of those tents look like they'd cost my food budget for a month. When I wanted a bike, I had to ride that bike to and from school and work every day because I paid for it using my bus pass fund.
     
     2. I was paying five figures to be there (and ivy leaguers would be paying six figures to be there), I wasn't going to pay thousands of dollars to not graduate because I was living in a tent to go protest something that had nothing to do with me.
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     This is insane. The terrorism on college campuses is fine, but stopping terrorism is bad?
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     #News University leaders face calls for accountability after crackdowns on pro-Palestinian encampments https://w.st/6Ti2N