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The Blue and White Magazine | 11/30/2013
Four years ago, before public scrutiny of Facebook’s privacy policy began and majority opinion about the National Security Association soured, a Columbia student posted a comment on his Facebook wall about Julian Assange. The comment was a joke about Gossip Girl. Non-political.
The student says that in a matter of hours, he received a message from Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) in his Cubmail inbox. The message, he says, strongly suggested that he take down the post. Words like “Julian Assange” attract unwanted attention. Heeding CUIT’s words of caution, he took the post down—and asked to remain anonymous in this article. Associate Vice President for Media Relations Robert Hornsby wrote in an email that CUIT “does not monitor or review student Facebook pages” and couldn’t have sent the email. The student says the email was deleted in the switch from Cubmail to Lionmail—CUIT reserves the right to delete emails without notice. Hornsby wrote that a CUIT search for the email was “inconclusive.”
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 