A group of Stanford professors is calling for an end to a system on campus that allows students to anonymously report on each other for what they perceive to be biased or discriminatory conduct.
At least 77 professors recently sent a petition to Stanford administrators, arguing that the university’s online reporting system, called Protected Identity Harm (PIH) Reporting, threatens free speech on campus and provides an opportunity for abuse, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Stanford Business School professor Ivan Marinovic told the news source that the University’s bias-reporting system “reminded him of the way citizens were encouraged to inform on one another” in the communist governments of the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China….