Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law

nursegirl writes "Ontario announced today a proposal to change their education act to add both physical bullying and cyber-bullying to the list of behaviors that can get a student suspended or expelled. Posting comments, pictures, or videos attacking other students or teachers outside of school hours will carry the risk of school punishment, if the incident is believed to have an 'impact on school climate.'"

Comments

Re:Good on them.

[jamesh]

Just for clarification, in places like the U.S., making insulting & deriding statements would be alright if the statements were true.

There are a few exceptions to this... if there was a dark skinned gentlemen born to unmarried parents who suffered from a mild intellectual disability, and I were to publicly refer to him (eg in a newspaper, tv show, or other public media) as a "black retarded bastard", I'm not sure that I'd get away with it, even though all the terms I used in the label were technically 'true' (as per their dictionary definition).

Not sure exactly what law I could be prosecuted under though... maybe it wouldn't be libel/slander, in which case your point still holds...