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."

Comments

Re:who gives a shit

[jstomel]

Wait a minute, are you saying that people who speak out against free speech should be punished? Would you give such a person a trial and just compensation? And who the fuck gave you the country? There's about 300 million of us who might kindly object to your claim of sole ownership rights to our country. As a believer in the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it's nice to know that there's someone else out there who believes that the jails should be destroyed and who supports my inalienable right to fuck your sister.

Re:Students Not Second-Class Citizens

[Sj0]

Erm...You guys do that. Often enough that it's actually a serious issue in my country, where you can't necessarily trust that you won't get sent to some secret prison in Europe to be tortured when you cross that border. Hell, you sent a bunch of our boys off to some countries run by very mean people who torture people to death because it was Tuesday.

Americans need to wake up to just how mean and nasty they actually are to foreigners.