‘Seeking Removal of the Photos’: Amherst College Demands Free Beacon Edit Photos, Videos of Students Performing in Official Sexual Ceremony. It Was Less Concerned When a Conservative Student Got a Death Threat.

By Aaron Sibarium

Amherst College is pressing the Washington Free Beacon to blur out the faces of students who performed mock sex acts in the college’s main chapel during an official orientation event. The $93,000-a-year college claims that the Free Beacon’s publication of videos of the performance led to “serious doxxing” and harassment. Amherst, which funds the event, has declined to say whether it will revise the program going forward.

Several days after the Free Beacon published a report on the performance in mid-December—and well after the racy photographs and videos had rocketed across in internet, including a New York Post article that described the sexual ceremony as “disgusting”—Amherst asked the Free Beacon to blur the faces of the students involved.

“I am writing to respectfully request that you consider blurring the faces of the participants in the videos and photos in the story about Amherst College that you ran last week,” Amherst’s director of communications, Caroline Hanna, wrote in an email to Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson. “[B]lurring the faces will, we hope, make it a little harder for trolls and others to identify and harass the people in the videos…

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