Dear Mr Vice President:

I heard part of your Turning Point USA interaction tonight, and bravo.  I am writing, though, about something less heartening, an emerging scandal at Stanford University.  

Recent reports on Fox and in The Stanford Review say that Stanford University has been hosting a political activist organization, Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, which has pushed for a global censorship regime.  The Stanford Review states:  "Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center serves as a crucial institutional node, providing convening power, academic legitimacy, and technical capabilities to link foreign censorship regimes with each other and with the US technology ecosystem."

Under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), tax exemption is unavailable to political institutions, and it is evident that Stanford's Cyber Policy Center is a political institution.   Its support for censorship is un-American and antithetical to the spirit of American history and culture. 

That an organization that advocates censorship flourishes at the highest levels of Stanford University suggests that Stanford is an institution beyond repair and undeserving of both public financial subsidy and tax exemption under IRC 501(c)(3). 

I urge you to end federal funding of Stanford, to end its tax exemption, and to investigate its officers for criminal tax fraud.  I also urge an investigation under the Logan Act as it appears that Stanford's faculty have engaged with foreign governments to undermine US policy, specifically, the First Amendment to the Constitution.  

I cannot express how distressed I am that US academic institutions are receiving public money and tax support to collude with foreign governments to attack freedom of expression. Stanford University is an anti-social disgrace, and it should be treated as such. 

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.