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Out of curiosity, I pulled up Duke’s FIRE rating and it’s overall “green”:

https://www.thefire.org/colleges/duke-university#:~:text=Duk...

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Entirely possible they'll be dropped down after this.

Not so much. FIRE promotes freedom of association. If the library was disciplined for making this decision, you might expect to see FIRE get involved.

The Library seems to not support freedom of thought/association.

I guess we'll see in 30-90 days what happens (if anything).

I donate a reasonable portion of my profits to FIRE so I guess I'll find out where my dollars go :) That said they seem to support mostly noble causes so I'm not gonna stop giving them money.

> The Library seems to not support freedom of thought/association.

This is a good point. 37signals has the right to associate with any organization it wants, even those that do not wish to do business with them.

FIRE should do more to punish organizations that make the choice not to associate with others, that’s not what freedom of association means. It’s the right to associate, not the right to choose not to associate.

Freedom is when you get punished for not doing business with an entity that you would prefer not to

Is this an attempt at sarcasm?

Seems pretty clearly to be. Like punishing someone for not speaking, since all you have is the freedom of speech.

Poe’s Law clearly states that there is no sarcasm online

Maybe you should rethink your approach.

Is this an attempt at sarcasm

There's no such thing as "freedom of thought/association". There is freedom of association, though, which dictates that people are free to choose who they do business with.

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