Posted on 08/02/2016 5:04:27 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
ASHINGTON, D.C. (August 2, 2016): A new Minnesota law requires all of its colleges to have websites where students can report allegations of sexual assault, naming the alleged perpetrators, but do so completely anonymously. According to the Washington Post, “that means survivors no longer will be forced to trek across campus to a Title IX office.”
But that also means that students, or perhaps even non-students, can, just with a few keyboard clicks, trigger a criminal and/or administrative investigation of the student or faculty member named, irreparably smearing his reputation, and perhaps even leading to his expulsion, and to do so with complete anonymity, notes public interest law professor John Banzhaf.
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This is going to result in a lot of false accusations and ruined lives.
Because, hey, what could go wrong with that?
I am having flashbacks about the time that I was raped at Tomahawk point by a female professor at Harvard.
Electronic neighborhood block captain.
There is no way this could go wrong...
So much for facing your accuser.
It’s a serious charge.
Character assassination has a much lower punishment.
And people wonder how the Germans let the Nazi’s gain so much power.
We are in trouble.
No evidence required.
Well, they'd need to add a firing squad and gulag too but give it time.
This could be a great tool if used properly.
It can be used against not only against the students, but the providers of the alleged “service”.
Be careful out there.
Could report Bill Clinton too.
Gee, what could go wrong.
Male scapegoats desperately needed! Enroll in Progressive University, where we will falsely accuse you of rape! It's for your own good, you disgusting pig.
Flood the site with thousands of complaints against faculty, staff, and students, starting with the president, chancellor, provost, Board of Regents, faculty senate, LGBTQWERTY club officers, black student union members, and womyn’s studies majors.
“The best way to ensure the repeal of a bad law is to insist on its enforcement.”
High cheek bones, spray tan...yep, Indian*
(*The woo-woo kind, not forehead dot kind)
And of course when that name goes up on the website it constitutes a conviction.
If Mrs bill takes this election, that might be a long time coming.
Can I turn in some flaming liberal professors ?
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