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Court to rehear online student speech cases in PA

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

The 3rd Circuit has agreed to rehear two seemingly contradictory online student speech cases decided in February (see here for more about the cases). It has vacated the previous opinions and all members of the court will hear arguments in … Continue reading →

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Court contradicts itself on student speech

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

On Thursday the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued two seemingly contradictory opinions involving student speech. Both cases involved students who had created fake online profiles parodying the principals at their respective schools. Both students were punished by school officials … Continue reading →

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Sexting Roundup: The Anxiety Surrounding Teens Sharing Naked Pictures of Themselves Continues to Make News

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Ohio lawmaker wants to make sexting a misdemeanor Last week, the Columbus Dispatch reported that Ohio State Representative Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) plans to introduce a bill in the Ohio state legislature which would make the creation, exchange, and possession of … Continue reading →

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When judicial corruption leads to severe punishment of free speech

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Two judges in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty last week to taking $2.6 million in exchange for sentencing juveniles to time in privately run detention centers. 5,000 juveniles have been sentenced since this kickback scheme started; many of them were first-time offenders. … Continue reading →

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When teachers are criticized, principals mocked, is it “cyberbullying”?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

The bulk of the cyber-bullying cases that have filled the courts have been cases of students punished for online speech with unpleasant content about teachers or administrators. On Monday, we looked at students using the internet to “bully” other students, … Continue reading →

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The First Amendment and the Internet

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Gene Policinski of the First Amendment Center sheds some light on the topic of internet censorship in a recent article in the North Country Gazette. He argues that, while the first amendment does not apply to private companies, privately owned … Continue reading →

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Who’s censoring Facebook: The powers that be or the forces of the mob?

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Recently, there have been reports that content involving the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mysteriously disappearing from Facebook. The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) has complained that “many threads in various pro-Israel and pro-JIDF groups have mysteriously disappeared,” while others have … Continue reading →

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2nd Amendment: Censored evolution editorial was plagiarized

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

We left for the weekend with a piece on a student’s editorial that was pulled from the school paper. From the student’s perspective, and from the principal’s response, it seemed the article was pulled because it defended evolution and failed … Continue reading →

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Students, Principals and fake Myspace profiles

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Yesterday we wrote about the student who was suspended for a Facebook page she created criticizing her teacher. Today: we look at two Myspace student cases facing the court. In Layshock v. Hermitage School District, high school senior Justin Layshock … Continue reading →

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Cyberbulling, free speech. Yep, the Lori Drew case.

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Slate’s Emily Bazelon has a piece today on the Lori Drew case. The terrible backstory: in 2006, Drew, her daughter, and her assistant, created a fake Myspace profile of a 16 year old boy and sent messages to a teen … Continue reading →

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