UT Austin charges $25k security fee to host free speaker
Hasan Piker speaks at college campuses for free, pays his own travel costs, and still shows up. UT Austin's response is to charge him $25k in security fees. He's asking why the university gets to extract money from a speaker doing them a favor while claiming they need protection from him.
This is the actual scam: universities gouge speakers they claim to want on campus, then frame it as a safety issue. The fee isn't about security. It's extraction dressed up as policy.
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