MySpace is Free Speech, Case Overturned

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @08:05AM from the myspeech dept.

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."

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Re:Students Not Second-Class Citizens by miquelets · 2007-04-10 08:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

fascist!
Re:No different from many other scenarios by brouski · 2007-04-10 09:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I agree. Enjoy your night in jail.

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