Tuesday, May 8, 2007

21. Court: MySpace postings are free speech

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-04-10-myspace-speech_N.htm

After a juvenile posted an "expletive-laden" comment about a school principal, and he found a page on MySpace in which the student talked about the school's rules on body piercings, the court found the child to be deliquent and placed her on nine months of probation. I agree that the court did not have the right to break the student's free-speech. It was understandable that the courts put her on probation later when she proved to be a deliquent child. However, I do not think student's should be scared that what they write on blogs or MySpace accounts will get them in trouble unless it could hurt themselves or others.

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