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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) clearly delineates how students are expected to make use of school-provided Internet access - and how not to. Definitions of acceptable Internet use vary not only from school to school, but from place to place, time to time, or user to user within a single school. Particularly when teachers use the same computers as their students, administrators must take users' varying needs into account when creating an AUP

Where is the line drawn between the regulators and the defenders over censorship and free speech on the Internet? The potential dangers to which it may expose teachers and their students, not only in terms of the material on the Internet which may be used for legitimate curriculum purposes but the legal and political conicts in which they are likely to be caught up.