RESPONSES TO THE CENSORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Who asked me last night, and not the first time, to take down my Substack posts. Uhhh. No.

It is a peculiar thing — though not, I confess, surprising — to be lectured about privacy by an institution that spent two years turning my life into a public bonfire.

The lawyers for the University of Guelph have once again emerged from their burrow with yet another attack of aspirational censorship, clutching pearls about “confidentiality” with the same trembling delicacy as someone who finds a hair in their soup, oblivious to the rat drowning in the bowl.

Let us recall the record — their record, not mine:

This is the same university whose staff and faculty, with full managerial consent, participated in a coordinated campaign that reached no fewer than 50,000 people on social media — more realistically 100,000 to 300,000 — urging them to contact Guelph-Humber and demand my termination. These posts, initiated by a friendly faculty member and amplified by activist groups he personally courted, included Twitter handles and official university email addresses, helpfully provided so strange…