Not The Onion

17947 readers

449 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

812

Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night. Seriously. (www.houstonchronicle.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

90 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Archived version

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30989415

Texas lawmakers trying to muzzle campus protests have just passed one of the most ridiculous anti-speech laws in the country. If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, Senate Bill 2972 would ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at public universities in the state.

Ironically, the bill builds on a previous law passed in 2019 meant to enshrine free speech on Texas campuses. But now, lawmakers want to crack down on college students’ pro-Palestinian protests so badly that they literally passed a prohibition on talking.

(page 2) 41 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Freedom!

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It'll take more than old Ironsides can muster to shut me up.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do not worry friends. The Great Republic of Texzanistahn will soon realize their folly and once again make it legal for men to talk on college campuses at night.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

The Republic of Gilead, you mean

I guarantee you, they'll try to rename it to that, just for shits and giggles or something

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Heh. Good fucking luck with that

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

Have you seen the number of people they've arrested and expelled in the last 2 years?

load more comments