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Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections For Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post
samedi 6 août 2022, 04:02 , par Slashdot
![]() The case arose when the student and his friends visited a thrift shop on a Friday night. There, they posted a picture on Snapchat with an offensive joke about violence against Jews. He deleted the post and shared an apology just a few hours later, but the school suspended and eventually expelled him. The Tenth Circuit held the First Amendment protected the student's speech because 'it does not constitute a true threat, fighting words, or obscenity.' The 'post did not include weapons, specific threats, or speech directed toward the school or its students.' While the post spread widely and the school principal received emails about it, the court correctly held that this did not amount to 'a reasonable forecast of substantial disruption' that would allow regulation of protected speech. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/08/05/2145231/federal-court-upholds-first-amendment-protections-fo...
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