OA finally reveals itself to be incompatible with academic freedom?https://twitter.com/jeroenbosman/status/1017046127638654977 …
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Your argument was that (a) academic freedom means freedom to choose where to publish; and (b) grant agencies are threatening that. I pointed out that (c) academic freedom certainly means freedom to choose what to work on, but that people commonly interpret that to mean...
... freedom in the context of their employment, not that grant agencies have a duty to fund them. And so too in the context of freedom of where to publish.
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Not sure why non-standard interpretation of academic freedom. I was not saying grant agencies have duty to fund researchers. Researchers should be employed & paid by universities. Don't know about US, but in UK now researchers' job depends on getting government/industry grants.
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Your argument: grant agencies are violating academic freedom for academics to publish where they choose. I'm pointing out that the exact same argument would show that grant agencies violate academic freedom to choose what they work on. Do you see this?
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Your argument about government control over research could be made into a strong one (& it'd be useful to do so, IMO). But tying it to a non-standard interpretation of academic freedom seems an unpromising direction to take it.
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