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Court Finds For Student In Web FOS Case
An anonymous reader writes "A student who brought a suit against his middle school has been awarded a settlement after two years of legal battles. USAToday reports that the suit was brought after the school leveled harsh disciplinary measures against the student, based entirely on comments made to his website guestbook." From the article: "Grayson Barber, who handled the case on behalf of the ACLU, said the school presented no evidence that Dwyer's comments were threatening or disruptive of school activities. 'Our schools should encourage debate and political engagement rather than punishing students who provide a forum for free expression.'"
Yeah, what should have happened is that the power-mad, un-American assholes that punished him should have been fired, barred from working with children anywhere ever again, and personally fined. Nobody should be fucking around with Free Speech rights, especially when the target is impressionable children!
These school administrators are more harmful to America than terrorists are!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Therefore, any anti-Semitic comments are illegal.
Of course, I may be mistaken about this. Last time I looked only certain hate speech is actually prosecuted. You can march down the street with a swastika banner shouting "Kill the Jews!" all day long and nobody will stop you. On the other hand, "Kill all the Fags!" will likely get you arrested.
Fortunately, most of the time the police have a lot better things to do than enforce hate-speech laws. Maybe that does fall onto the school then - if you aren't educated what hate speech is, who's fault is it?