You have the right to express yourself online, whether you are
writing e-mails, posting to a blog, updating a homepage, or
talking in a chat-room. Yet you also are responsible for your
actions as they affect others
The U.S. Constitution and the Washington Constitution guarantee
freedom of expression for everyone, including students. Students do
not give up their constitutional rights when they walk onto school
grounds. Whether you want to comment on a new school rule, gay
rights, teen pregnancy, or the latest national news, you have the right
to express your ideas, including those that are controversial. But there
are limits
such as giving a sexually suggestive speech at a school assembly,
or promoting illegal drug use at a school functio
But in
most situations, school administrators and teachers cannot prevent
you from saying something just because it is controversial.
true threat
A defamatory statement
Obscene
True Threats
Whether you are in school or not, online or in-person, the right to
free speech does not protect speech that a reasonable person would
interpret as a serious expression of your desire and ability to harm
him/her.
Defamatory Statements
The right to free speech also does not protect false personal attacks
against another person that are untrue, that harm someone's
reputation, and that you knew, or should have known, were untrue
when you said or wrote it.
Obscene Speech
The right to free speech does not protect speech that deals with
sex in a manner appealing to purely lustful interests in a patently
offensive manner, and without serious literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value.
For speech to be
considered a "true threat," it must
be something that a reasonable
person would interpret as a serious
expression of an intention to harm
him/her.
If the school provides students with an e-mail address, it can impose
rules on its use. For example, it can require that the address be
used only for school-related purposes and can prohibit using the
account in a way that interferes with another student's learning, such
as sending flames or bullying
messag
It may also monitor what
you view, send, or receive
on school-provided
computers or e-mail
account
Your school may prohibit all access to the Internet on any computer. Or
your school may prohibit using school computers to access the Internet,
including sites such as Facebook or YouTube, or using Hotmail or
Gmail accounts, if school officials believe access is disruptive to
the schoo
When you are using the school's computer and Internet access,
school officials can see what you are sending and receiving onlin
Check your personal e-mail or non-school-related
websites outside of school, on your own time, with a computer that
does not belong to the school.
But merely because you are off campus, you are not free to say just
anything. Remember, state and federal laws make it illegal to post
threats of violence against a person or to advocate certain illegal
action
Posting
information on
the Internet
can be like
publishing it in
the newspaper.
If the website is
public, anyone
can look at i
Keep in mind that school officials, college
admissions officers, and potential employers are free to look at
it.
Other people could take your posting and copy
it to another website where you can't delete it
What's more, what you put on a public website may stay on the
Internet foreve
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