Law School hosts Internet speech conference
A case pitting Connecticut public school administrators against a high school student’s personal blog took center stage at a Yale Law School conference on free speech over the weekend.
The case, Doninger v. Niehoff, ruled on contentious issues forming the heart of debate at the conference, “The Future of Internet Speech: What Are We Teaching the Facebook Generation?” hosted by the Yale Law School’s Law and Media Program. Approximately forty students, professors and journalists gathered for the two-day conference, which was precipitated by a series of recent court decisions ,...
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Travesty Kravitz Sliced & Diced,
Way Too Gently,
By NY Atty
Cutting Down The School House Gates
Kravitz quietly turned the law on its head ... Whenever a judge refers to the "new age of the internet," you can be assured that something bad is about to come ... they don't understand the internet and they most assuredly have no respect for it ... The fact that speech, published on the internet, is theoretically accessible anywhere anytime does not make it on-campus anymore than a book published 300 years ago on another continent that sits on the library shelf is transformed into on-campus speech ... information is no longer controlled exclusively by the grown-ups, and they just can't stand it ... Kravitz really needs to figure out which side of the Constitution demands the protection of a federal judge, no matter how deferential he feels toward school officials ...
By ATTY. SCOTT GREENFIELD
The Avery Doninger case, Connecticut's contribution to the death of speech for students, has taken yet another turn for the worst according to the New Haven Register.
http://cooljustice.blogspot.com/2009/02/travesty-kravitz-sliced-diced-way-too.html
Would Doninger be in trouble if he had called President Bush a douchebag? I truly doubt it. I would bet that he would be in trouble for calling the "one" a douchebag!
Any takers on that bet?
Let the Internet do the teaching. Post a mini-lecture on YouTube and let it fly. Why send it to a dead end arena like "Parents, teachers and administrators". How pre-digital.