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Disorderly Conduct Charge for Offensive Classmate Ratings

Posted by timothy on Friday May 13, 2011 @01:34PM from the stop-thinking-that dept.

Hatta writes "A Chicago-area teenager who posted a demeaning list of female classmates on Facebook has been arrested for disorderly conduct. Is this an appropriate response to online harassment, or a threat to free speech?"

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Reality: Virtual or Physical by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-13 13:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

So a d-bag teenager put a 'demeaning' list of his fellow female classmates on-line and got arrested for it. Rather than the social stigma, female students, and student body appropriately handle this idiot, law enforcement decided to step in.
If this doesn't prove we've come full circle into a nanny state, I'm not sure what will. He's 17 for cry'in out loud, and in High School! How does an arrest benefit society here?