Law Student Web Forum: Free Speech Gone too Far?

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 8, 2007 @12:51AM from the sticks-and-stones dept.

The Xoxo Reader writes "Today's Washington Post carries a front-page article on the internet message board AutoAdmit (a.k.a. Xoxohth), which proclaims itself the "most prestigious law school discussion board in the world." The message board has recently come under fire for emphasizing a free speech policy that allows its users to discuss, criticize, and attack other law students and lawyers by name. Is this an example of free speech and anonymity gone too far, or is internet trolling just a necessary side effect of a policy that otherwise promotes insightful discussion of the legal community?"

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Penny Arcade by Zonk+(troll) · 2007-03-08 01:22 · Score: 1, Redundant

Penny Arcade covers this with this comic.

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"The Federal Reserve is a fraudulent system."--Lew Rockwell
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Re:Yeah by cain · 2007-03-08 02:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

The technical name for the phenomenon is John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.