Re:University of Oregon will monitor students' social media ...
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:05PM
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> I'm OK with this, as long as the terms are well-defined and there is some form of recourse or due process for cases of mistaken and/or abusive accusations.
What about mistaken and/or abusive applications of the process? What if you need protection, not from a student, but from an administrator?
> Should the school have the ability censure a student who posts openly hateful things on Twitter? I think they should; in my opinion, it's not different from shouting those hateful things at passersby on the campus lawn.
Twitter isn't the campus lawn. The campus lawn is university property; Twitter isn't.
What about mistaken and/or abusive applications of the process? What if you need protection, not from a student, but from an administrator?
> Should the school have the ability censure a student who posts openly hateful things on Twitter? I think they should; in my opinion, it's not different from shouting those hateful things at passersby on the campus lawn.
Twitter isn't the campus lawn. The campus lawn is university property; Twitter isn't.