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Students Banned from Blogging
wayward writes "Students at Pope John XIII, a Catholic high school, were told to take down their blogs from sites like Xanga and MySpace or face suspension. Rev. Kieran McHugh, the school's principal, said that he was trying to protect students from online predators. Not too surprisingly, free speech advocates got more than a little concerned.
Quick question. Why is it no-one ever calls Catholics "christians", but everyone calls Zionists "jewish". Sure, it's accurate to call a Catholic a Christian but by it's pretty inaccurate and insulting to all the other Christians who don't share the beliefs of Catholics.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Have the parent install monitoring software and check up on what junior's up to on-line.
What about when your kid reads Slashdot and uses OpenBSD with encrypted volumes at 15 years old and runs his browser in a chroot jail with connections being routed through TOR to a server via an SSL Tunnel?
I'm just glad he isn't wearing a tin-foil hat.
And there is the problem right there...in economic terms, they are receiving tax dollars in the sense that the church isn't paying any taxes. Sorry, but if you want to restrict speech like a regular private entity can, then you should not accept a free ride on property taxes from the government (ie MY WALLET). You can't have it both ways.
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So you don't see any problems with countries conducting gross violation of human rights as long as they don't recieve your tax dollars?
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No you can't have the right to express yourself online because 'we have to protect you from online predators'.
No you can't complain if you're detained for two weeks without reason and prohibitied from telling anyone because 'we have to protect you from terrorists'.
I'll take my f**king chances thankyou very much.
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So you don't see any problems with countries conducting gross violation of human rights as long as they don't recieve your tax dollars?
Hello Mr. Strawman! What do "countries" have to do with this? This is a discussion of a private organization. Also, freedom of speech is not a human right, it's a constitutional right, and those apply to the government, not private organizations.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
"Hurr hurr, the Catholic Church shouldn't try to help kids avoid predators, 'cause they're PREDATORS ALREADY lol gimme five/karma"
"Hurr hurr, don't use a firewall on Windows because you are fucked anyways hahaha I am appreciative of people stuck using a certain os LOL I am so hot today gimme paw/money"
"Hurr hurr, don't bother eating or doing anything for that matter because you're going to die someday anyways LOL I so took the world by storm with that lol gimme cock"
Jesus, people. Get fucking lives.
This isn't to say I'm agreeing with censoring journals, but think before you splooge idiocy onto the Internet. This isn't the place for it. May I suggest the IMDb.
Calling Xanga and MySpace blogs is an insult to the word "blog". "Students Banned From Posting On Their Craptacular Teenage Social-Networking Sites" would be more accurate (though not as catchy).
Seriously. MySpace?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized!
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
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c) freedom of peaceful assembly
Thats about all I see on speech. I wouldn't say it's broader but more vague.
You made me a foe after I practiced my freedom of speech and you have quite an extensive list of them. I hope that isn't a sign of your idea of free speech where it applies unless you don't agree with their point of view
It's funny. Laugh at my use of freedom of speech and everybody lighten up
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
It was a joke dude.... I'm not stupid. I even said it was a joke at the end. Don't make me put you on my foe list ;)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.