Supreme Court debates student free speech rights on social media

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Supreme Court debates student free speech rights on social media.

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer speaks with a teen who is at the center of a Supreme Court case on freedom of speech, tackling the authority schools have over student speech off campus on social media.of American teenagers on social media with the needs of schools to maintain order and discipline in classrooms and on playing fields.

They were wary of that stark standard even as most were also uneasy with the idea of schools policing student speech unfettered, after hours. Levy sued the school and won twice in lower federal courts. She was reinstated to the team and graduated last spring. "Off-campus speech on social media can be disruptive," attorney Lisa Blatt told the justices."The speaker’s location is irrelevant."

Justice Clarence Thomas raised one of the challenges of the digital age:"Aren’t we at a point that if it’s on social media, where you posted it on social media doesn’t really matter?" he said. Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, however, raised the legitimate stakes for schools in potential scenarios of cheating on academic assignments and student threats of violence that might take place electronically, off campus.

 

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School administrators are not god. Do the right thing for once.

So when, as has happened, a group of kids tweet out or snap out racial slurs at kids of another race from the football team, now you want that to be allowed because she didn’t perform well enough to make the varsity team. Entitled much

Basically Democrats and liberals can say and do as they want and Conservatives can’t say anything without being shut down. Fixed it for you

This seems like an important issue for this girl and her free speech rights.

She violated Code of conduct rules that she had accepted. Toss the trash to the street. It's that simple.

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No, they're debating the sanctity of free speech altogether. This reaches farther.

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