One point Agamben got right is that whenever we introduce seemingly benevolent mass surveillance systems, we must imagine what authoritarians will do with these powers during a state of emergency. Software designed to track online hate speech now used to screen and scapegoat academic research.
Reposted from Darby Saxbe
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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