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#1 Oct 20 2006 at 5:02 AM Rating: Decent
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Students can be punished for postings online

The Clark-Pleasant School Board has unanimously approved new guidelines letting the district punish students who post threatening and disruptive comments online.

The policy, approved at Tuesday night's meeting, will apply to student and employee postings on social networking sites such as MySpace.com and on blogs.
The policies are necessary as more students use the Internet to vent about issues at school, said Jim White, the Whiteland district's director of technology.

The policy informs students and teachers that they will be held legally responsible for anything posted online, including material deemed defamatory, obscene, proprietary or legally libelous.


So if a student calles his cnut of a teacher a cnut on myspace, he can get punished?


Fascists...
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#2 Oct 20 2006 at 5:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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They learned from the Feds!
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Teen Questioned for Online Bush Threats

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com. She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense.

It was too late.

Federal authorities had found the page and placed Wilson on their checklist. They finally reached her this week in her molecular biology class.

The 14-year-old freshman was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.

On Friday, the teenager said the agents' questioning led her to tears.

"I wasn't dangerous. I mean, look at what's (stenciled) on my backpack -- it's a heart. I'm a very peace-loving person," said Wilson, an honor student who describes herself as politically passionate. "I'm against the war in Iraq. I'm not going to kill the president."

Her mother, Kirstie Wilson, said two agents showed up at the family's home Wednesday afternoon, questioned her and promised to return once her daughter was home from school.

After they left, Kirstie Wilson sent a text message to her daughter's cell phone, telling her to come straight home: "There are two men from the secret service that want to talk with you. Apparently you made some death threats against president bush."

"Are you serious!?!? omg. Am I in a lot of trouble?" her daughter responded.

Moments later, Kirstie Wilson received another text message from her daughter saying agents had pulled her out of class.

Julia Wilson said the agents threatened her by saying she could be sent to juvenile hall for making the threat.

"They yelled at me a lot," she said. "They were unnecessarily mean."

Spokesmen for the Secret Service in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., said they could not comment on the case.
Another victory in the war on terror! Smiley: laugh
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#3 Oct 20 2006 at 5:54 AM Rating: Decent
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She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand.

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"I wasn't dangerous. I mean, look at what's (stenciled) on my backpack -- it's a heart. I'm a very peace-loving person," said Wilson, an honor student who describes herself as politically passionate.


Smiley: confused She is "peace loving" and yet had a picture that said "kill bush"... Stupid cnut.



Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 8:55am EST by <censored>
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#4 Oct 20 2006 at 6:10 AM Rating: Decent
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Yup, that freedom of speech amendment is just getting more and more anally raped as days go by. You can't vent your frustrations at people in person (because you'll hurt their feelings!), so you do so online, only to find out that you choosing to let it out electronically will still get you into trouble. It'll get to a point where the only way to vent your frustrations is through violence, which ironically is what these idiot measures that are being passed to try and prevent.


God damn I hate stupid people in charge.
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#5 Oct 20 2006 at 6:15 AM Rating: Decent
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If some kid got in trouble for saying his teacher was a stupid cnut, would he get the chance to prove that he was just stating a fact?

Then it would go on public record that the teacher was a stupid cnut. Smiley: laugh

That would make me happy.
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#6 Oct 20 2006 at 6:21 AM Rating: Good
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Indiana hates a lot of things, 'teeth' being Chief Among Them.
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#7 Oct 20 2006 at 6:33 AM Rating: Decent
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Indiana hates a lot of things, 'teeth' being Chief Among Them.
But they love Nascar and gambling.

Maybe some school kid made a post online saying Nascar was teh ghey.

It is all starting to make sense now
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The 14-year-old freshman was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.

On Friday, the teenager said the agents' questioning led her to tears.


She's a minor. She should have had a parent or lawyer present during any questioning, otherwise anything she said would be inadmissible in court. They were probably just trying to scare her. Speading terror to stop terrorism.
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#9 Oct 20 2006 at 8:25 AM Rating: Decent
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that is a law suit just waiting to happen. will never stand up in court of law.
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She's a minor. She should have had a parent or lawyer present during any questioning, otherwise anything she said would be inadmissible in court.


Not true in most states. Minors can, and usually are held and questioned without parental involvement. Here in VA (at least it was reported as though it was local) there was a case a while back about it, but was thrown out because minors do not have the same protection under the Constitution. I don't remember why, but I do remember the case. I'll see if I can dig it up.

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They were probably just trying to scare her. Speading terror to stop terrorism.


There are several ways that your supposed "free speech" (which isn't as free as some of you think) can violate the law and not be protected. Go into a theater and yell "fire", threaten ANY elected official, slander, etc. She indirectly threated the president. Hers was not protected. Stupid fucking kid.

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#11 Oct 20 2006 at 8:54 AM Rating: Good
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Stupid fucing


If you're going to try and be cool by trying to break the swear filter, spell the swear word right.
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#12 Oct 20 2006 at 9:20 AM Rating: Decent
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DOH
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Stupid fucking kid.
I wouldn't call her that. She perhaps acted immaturely by thinking the picture was cool or worth posting (she's 14 after all) but, according to the story, as soon as she found out in class that that sort of thing is verboten, she was bright enough to say "Oh shit" and go home and take it down with a quickness.
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Julia Wilson said the agents threatened her by saying she could be sent to juvenile hall for making the threat.

"They yelled at me a lot," she said. "They were unnecessarily mean."
They probably resented having to go to Sacramento. She deserved it!
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