Purdue was one of the first universities to commit to the Chicago Principles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591899
President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
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Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
#22For those geo blocked. The president of Purdue sent out and email in response to learning that Chinese students had been harassing a Chinese student who spoke out about the heroism of the students who died in Tiananmen Square, insisting all students respect free speech.
“Those seeking to deny those rights to others, let alone to collude with foreign governments in repressing them, will need to pursue their education elsewhere.”
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#23I find it highly entertaining that they talk about denying rights and then deny the whole of the EU access because they insist on violating their readers' privacy rights and that would be illegal in the EU.
Perhaps a fair point, but I don't think it's remotely comparable to the topic at hand. We're talking about Chinese-born students in America being ratted out to the Chinese government for exercising their free expression rights like model American citizens, even though they are foreigners.
If I had the relevant Presidential powers, I'd offer citizenship to every one of the threatened students, and the rats would be sent packing home to China the second they were identified.
The 50 cent lackeys of Pooh-Bear[1] are not welcome here in America. Go home, scumbags!!
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...
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#24What you get in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.
It's also elsewhere, e.g. on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/rh81c0/mitch_letter... I am surprised it's blocked in the EU. My first guess is that this student newspaper doesn't have a lot of technical folks on staff and didn't see much point in investing in being Europe-friendly. Their hosting site, https://townnews.com/ , doesn't look super legit at a glance but perhaps someone else knows more.
As an American living in London, I find GDPR blocks extremely annoying…but I blame GDPR. It is a well intentioned law but horribly scoped. If I were the technical staff at a regional university in the US, I wouldn’t invest in compliance with a law that in theory can issue severe penalties. I would simply block that traffic, as they and many others have done.
Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
#25What you get in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.
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Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
#26What you get in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.
I guess not tracking their users just wasn't an acceptable compromise. I wish eu google would just drop results like this.
Or they could just track their eu readers and not comply because they aren't in the EU?
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#27Please report any suspected collaborators with the Chinese secret police to the DEI campus safety board. All suspects will need to report to the DEI offices for re-education. Joking, but they literally do the exact same shit to Republicans.
Purdue is not a coastal liberal arts university. You’re unlikely to find support for restrictions on freedom of speech there.
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#28Nice speech, but if I was a betting man I would bet this is just posturing in response to the article.
Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
#29What you get in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.
I don't quite understand how EEA GDPR regulations can extend to entities with no European footprint at all, such as this student newspaper. Can't they just issue cookies and give the EU the finger?
Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
#30I find it highly entertaining that they talk about denying rights and then deny the whole of the EU access because they insist on violating their readers' privacy rights and that would be illegal in the EU.
The fact that they don't want to spend the time and money to conform to the EU's bureaucratic "privacy theatre" is not evidence that they're actually violating anyone's privacy rights.