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when will they learn -- Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:15:23 -0800
________________________________________ From: Zach White [zwhite () darkstar frop org] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:11 PM To: David Farber Cc: Matt Murray Subject: Re: [IP] Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:05:09AM -0800, David Farber wrote:
________________________________________ From: Matt Murray [mattm () optonline net] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:07 AM To: David Farber Subject: Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech NEW YORK - A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.
This is far from the first time schools have attempted to treat online speech the same as on-campus speech. I believe the first case is O'Brien v. Westlake City Schools Board of Education. In that case, Sean O'Brien (RIP) created a website, raymondsucks.org, to make fun of his band teacher. He was predictably suspended over the incident. A federal judge overturned the suspension. The school settled the suit for $30,000. http://www.freedomforum.org/packages/first/censorshipinternetspeech/part3.htm It looks like earlier this year another student was expelled for their online doings, and a slashdot commenter did the work of collecting up the relevent case law for me: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=416450&cid=22028428 What concerns me most about this case is that in more than 10 years of court cases about these issues, schools still treat students as if they don't have any rights. What message is that sending to our youth? -Zach ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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