MySpace is Free Speech, Case Overturned

eldavojohn writes "The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a judge violated the constitution after placing a juvenile on probation for an expletive laden MySpace entry on the principal. The court decided that the juvenile's free speech rights had been unconstitutionally revoked, and the original judge had suppressed politically motivated free speech since the comments were directly attacking school policy. I think we are starting to see a fine line develop online as it did with print — bullying & slander are punishable while we have to allow criticism of ideas no matter how harsh it is."

Re:Good

[MacsSuck]

You will do as you're told till you're 18. Now get off the interweb!

Re:Good

[lilomar]

Free speech be damned, give me a beer and a woman! Rarely has the current American public sentiment been so concisely put.

Girl Smarter Than Principal

[nexuspal]

"Hey you piece of greencastle shit. What the fuck do you think of me [now] that you can['t] control me? Huh? Ha ha ha guess what I'll wear my fucking piercings all day long and to school and you can['t] do shit about it! Ha ha fucking ha! Stupid bastard! Oh and kudos to whomever made this ([I'm] pretty sure I know who). Get a background." Wow, to think that the principal became so enraged at this girls posting as to send her off to court! What a wimp! And guess what... She was right and WON!! NEENER NEENER!

Re:Students Not Second-Class Citizens

[Belial6]

It is good to see that you agree whole heartedly with the parent poster, as we all know that complaining about spelling is an admission that all of the points are 100% correct.

Age

[sacrilicious]

packeteer (566398) wrote:

I am 16 years old...

Quick back of envelope calculation: I joined slashdot in late 1999 and got #316896. I think membership is now up to 1.1 million. Assuming (perhaps wrongly) a linear rate of member accrual, I think that puts your number of 566938 at about five years ago... which would mean you started reading slashdot when you were 11. That rocks! :)