Brown Took the Bait: It couldn't happen here, right?

A Brown University undergraduate named Alex Shieh, who generally takes conservative political positions and writes about them, decided to be a one-man DOGE. So he wrote emails to a bunch of Brown administrators asking them what they did. 

Brown then had two choices:

1) Ignore the emails.

2) Start an investigation of Shieh.

Which of the two do you suppose the Brown administration selected? From the Brown Daily Herald:

...After Shieh sent emails to around 3,800 administrators at Brown asking them to “describe what tasks you performed in the past week,” he was notified on March 20 that the University was launching a “Preliminary Review” into alleged violations of Brown’s Code of Student Conduct...

University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald that Brown’s investigation into Shieh “absolutely is not” a free speech issue...

Full story at https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/05/gop-congressman-questions-browns-low-endowment-tax-disciplinary-proceedings-for-bloatbrown-creator.

Of course, all of this has now attracted Congressional attention to Brown. From the same article:

...“When these institutions, which operate in a largely tax-free world, appear more interested in stifling dissenting viewpoints and inquiry into their administrative bloat, it prompts serious questions about their tax-exempt status and how their large endowments contribute to the broader public good,” [Congressman Troy] Nehls wrote. In addition to asking about the endowment, Nehls urged the University to “reconsider any disciplinary action” against Shieh...

And there is now this from Shieh:

Or direct to https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJKFCSHpo4A/.

There is an obvious lesson to be learned here, so I won't say what it is.