Court rules universities may have duty to block websites that harass students

Re:Court rules universities may have duty to block websites ... by DanBC on Monday December 31, 2018 @12:43PM (#18795754)

Credible threats of violence were made. Complaints about those were made to the univeristy who did nothing at all to investigate the threats. The university claimed they couldn't do anything because 1st ammendment. That argument was rebutted - one thing the university could have done was to block yikyak. No-one was asking for that to happen, no-one suggested it should happen, but it was one option available to the university.

> One thing that is interesting is how so many foreigners are so supportive of limiting speech in the US. Can I ask why you are so heavily invested in supporting censorship in the US, especially since you aren't american?

A more interesting thing is how few Americans bother to read the original court documents to understand what's really going on and who then leap to yelling CENSORSHIP even if that isn't what's happening.

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Re:Court rules universities may have duty to block websites ... by porpoisely on Monday December 31, 2018 @01:06PM (#18795910)

If there were credible threats, can you show me the arrest records? If credible threats are made, what does blocking the websites do? Is it better to ignore those threats rather than address them? Credible threats are a criminal matter after all. And I did read the article. Didn't find any credible threats that were listed.

And we care because we are americans and we don't like censorship and we don't want to live in an oppressive and censored environment. I was just curious as to why you care as a foreigner. I wasn't trying to offend you. Just curious.

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Re:Court rules universities may have duty to block websites ... by mcguire on Monday December 31, 2018 @06:40PM (#18797829)

"Is it better to ignore those threats rather than address them?"

You'd have to ask UMW.

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