Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity

First time accepted submitter OopsIDied writes with the story that high-school senior Austin Carroll of Garrett, Indiana was recently expelled after tweeting profanity from his own home, writing "Supposedly the school has a system which tracks students' social networks after they have logged in at school. Although the tweet was done at home at 2 AM, the school decided that such behavior was unacceptable and that the most fitting punishment was expulsion. He did use a school computer, but it was set up to use the school network even when used outside the school because the school claimed the tweet was associated with the school's IP address." As usual, TechDirt has some biting commentary about the expulsion. But Hey, at least they didn't throw him in jail.

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Good schooling.

[gambit3]

Sounds like good schooling (if by schooling I mean preparing him for the real world).
The same thing would probably happen if he used a company computer to post profanity: the company would probably be within their legal right to fire him.

Their compuer, their rules.

Re:Good schooling.

[CuriousGeorge113]

Right, it was also their network with their IP address.