Watch Your Mouse: Threats Made Online Not Protected As Free Speech, L.A. Court Rules

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• Well FYI, I for one am facing felony charges for doing nothing more than being facetious online and exposing some corrupt State level employees and judiciary officials. Welcome to the new America.

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• In February, a federal appeals court in Pennsylvania ruled that a Mercer County district had no right to suspend a high school student for 10 days for creating a lewd phony MySpace profile of his principal. The court said the profile, in which the student referred to the principal as a "big steroid freak" and a "big whore," was protected free speech. But in an illustration of how murky this area of evolving law is, a federal appeals court panel in Pennsylvania ruled the same day that a school in another county had the authority to suspend an eighth-grader who posted sexually explicit material along with her principal's photograph on a fake MySpace page. The US Supreme Court has yet to take up a case involving student speech online, so many school districts are struggling to find the right balance between combating cyber-bullying and avoiding free speech violations, according to legal specialists.

• It's disturbing to think that you have free speech if you say something, but not if you write it!

• Im going to slit the throat of that judge

• Don't tell me they can't tell the difference between a joke comment and real threat. (Make everything illegal and the police state will have a busy time of it.) "The court majority said a message that threatens physical harm, even if it wasn't meant to be serious, loses its First Amendment protection and can be grounds for a lawsuit." LIES!!! Please let me hammer this into your dirty commie heads. The RIGHT of Free Speech means you can't tell me what to say. You can't tell me what I can't say. You can't tell me that somehow I violated my warranty and my "protection" is gone. "If I had my way I'd have all of you shot!" Pink Floyd

• Soon free speech won't be allowed in hard copy print. If the LCD screen is not free speech, then they can move to hard copy as not free speech. Anyone starting to feel a bit scared yet?

• I will split open that judges skull with a rusty axe for this. What a fag-hat.

• someone better let the people that comment on YouTube know about this

• lol eloh, I can't wait till those criminal and civil charges start being filed.

• chris chan is in deep shit with this ruling

• Well well

• LOL< so the LA Kangaroo court says, it will get shot down if they appeal it, no doubt. Lou www.web-invisibility.at.tc

• After the fact still okay? = http://bit.ly/3PkwqH

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