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Student Suspended For Posting On YouTube
An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian student has been suspended from school and had the police called on him due to satirical animations that he posted to YouTube. Jack Christie, a 12th-grade student at the Donald A. Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, created the videos in his own time, off-campus."
I think the school got confused between their campus and China. That is defiantly the most appalling part. Not only can you not say something the school doesn't like, you are also not allowed to defend anyone who does.
Is anyone else tired of this whole "Freedom of Speech" excuse which always seems to crop up every single time?
For one thing, this has nothing to do with talking, so I guess you could call it "Freedom of Expression", but this excuse can justify anything you want.
Not saying anything about it particular to this case, just that its so very overused its become tiring. Pretty much anything can be justified, including urinating on religious symbols and taking images of them (and yes that happened).
He's typical of the 99.999% of other teenagers and youths in today's world - constantly pounded by advertising and crap TV about how you're a nobody unless you've always got cameras pointed at you and have sheeple hanging on your every word, this is just him having his 15 minutes of fame.
I'm a guy in my 40s who enjoys about the 1% of YouTube that's any good, but it's ability to grant overnight infamy to kids brainwashed into believing that fame is their only goal is messing with their heads. I'm very broad-minded but even I was absolutely disgusted by crazes like "happy slapping" where the only goal was to get as many people as possible watching and laughing at a video of someone else's misfortune.
Our world is SCREWED until we bring up kids who have the confidence to do the right thing as often as they can because they understand the potential consequences of their actions.
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