In response to Clive Hamilton’s recent article in Australian IT, Kieran from Websinthe.org sent an email to Charles Sturt University suggesting there needs to be more peer review of Mr Hamilton’s media commentary. Here’s the email:
While Clive Hamilton is obviously a greatly respectable academic there really needs to be more peer review of his media commentary he gets away with too much inaccuracy [sic].
Seems fair and reasonable to me, especially when the blurb on the Australian IT article boasts Hamilton is a ‘Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University’. Clive Hamilton didn’t think so. He accused Kieran of trying to silence him. Take a look:
Dear Mr Salsone
The University has forwarded your complaint to me. I find it astonishing that someone who purports to defend freedom of expression on the internet should complain to my employer with the objective of pressuring them to silence me.
It’s called hypocrisy.
If Clive Hamilton believes a critical eye from his peers would silence him, it’s time to lift his game.
