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MIT Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

by doener on 10/10/25, 4:07 PM with 9 comments

• by bediger4000 on 10/10/25, 4:46 PM

  The offer demands that MIT 'prohibit anything that would “belittle” conservative ideas.'

  Can't conservative ideas compete in the Marketplace of Ideas without a boost from the government? What happened to absolute freedom of speech? Weren't we all broadly against censorship on campus just a few years ago? Why the about face?

• by labrador on 10/10/25, 4:19 PM

  https://archive.is/S5S7w

• by ChrisArchitect on 10/10/25, 4:50 PM

  Regarding the Compact - MIT President Sally Kornbluth https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/regarding-compact