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March 6th, 2008

Another free speech lawsuit

Teen in trouble for a LiveJournal post:
Here we go with the free speech debate again. This time it’s in Connecticut where 17-year-old Avery Doninger of Lewis S. Mills High School posted on her LiveJournal that the school administration were ‘douchebags’.
The school caught wind of this and banned her from being re-elected to the student council. […]

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April 10th, 2007

Teen’s MySpace rant ruled free speech

Court reverses penalty over MySpace post:
This gets complicated so follow closely.
An unknown person created a fake MySpace profile that maligned Greencastle Middle School Principal Shawn Gobert. A teen who is identified as A.B. left an expletive laden comment on said MySpace about the school’s body piercing policy. Apparently Mr. Gobert made a federal case out […]

By Trench -- 1 comment

April 12th, 2006

Do as I say not as I do?

Seven Parsippany students suspended for MySpace accounts:
Is this hypocrisy or not? You make the call…
PARSIPPANY — Seven Parsippany High School students will serve 5-day suspensions starting next Monday for setting up two MySpace.com accounts filled with photos and “vulgarities” about classmates and teachers, Interim Superintendent James Dwyer said today.
The students used cell phone cameras to […]

By Trench -- 8 comments