Dive Summary:
- The Johns Hopkins University ordered a cryptography professor to take down a blog post critical of the NSA's circumvention of Internet encryption, but then took back its request.
- The request came after Green posted about a New York Times article that outlined how the National Security Agency circumvented encryption; the post on the Hopkins site was a mirror of a post available elsewhere.
- Hopkins said that it had Green's post removed after being told it contained links to classified material and used the NSA logo; the university later said the post could be restored because the logo was gone and the links were to material that was publicly available.
From the article:
... Because Hopkins is a private institution it can legally order Green to remove the blog, said Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center and dean of the College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University. "Most institutions of higher learning have policies that protect academic freedom," Paulson said. "And expressions by members of the faculty are generally respected. But there is not a First Amendment violation here." ...
