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Stephen Downes

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Are university professors fair game for web sites featuring "dossiers" of those it opposes? The organizers of a site called Campus Watch think so as they compile and post information about colleges and professors they allege to be anti-semetic. The site is currently running very slowly (thanks, probably, to the New York Times article linked here). According to the Times, hundreds of academics have been writing to the site asking to be added to the list. "Many academics see Campus Watch as an effort to chill free speech about the Middle East... 'It's that whole mode of terror by association, with the cold war language of dossiers, and we're watching you.'"

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