‘Hostile’ comments on the social media app Yik Yak pushed feminist students at the University of Mary Washington to sue the school, since the school did not protect them from those comments.
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‘Hostile’ comments on the social media app Yik Yak pushed feminist students at the University of Mary Washington to sue the school, since the school did not protect them from those comments.
Yik Yak, a popular app among college students, is no longer anonymous and users are apparently leaving the app as a result.
Symbolic bans really aren’t meaningful, universities.