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Re:Court rules universities may have duty to block websites ... by jeffdavis on Monday December 31, 2018 @08:15PM (#18798266)
Why do you say "wrongly"? It's one thing to punish bad speech; it's quite another to block furture speech which may be good or bad. Generally the first amendment requires punishing speech after the fact outside of some narrow circumstances.

It's not clear to me how the university would block only threats in the future without restraining potentially legitimate speech.

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Re:Court rules universities may have duty to block websites ... by DanBC on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @05:03AM (#18799607)
They claimed they were forbidden from blocking the wbesite because 1st ammendment. The court told them that was wrong, and that 1st ammendment didn't prevent them from blocking the website.

They have other reasons for not wanting to block websites, and they should have used those.

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