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Re:The Magna Carta Essay by granfalloon on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:24PM (#3409338)
maybe announcing it to the rest of his class would be a justified "public outting." or announcing it in a campus publication. but this goes way, way beyond that.

i think it's kind of scary how quick people are nowadays to froth at the mouth and go crazy with the big-scale internet public shaming. one of the downsides of the rise of social-media, i guess

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Re:The Magna Carta Essay by InclinedPlane on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:40PM (#3409395)
Are you being serious? That's just a slap on the wrist, for what appears to be academic fraud.

I would cancel his degree and send a notice to his current employers.

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Re:The Magna Carta Essay by bountie on Friday December 30, 2011 @06:44PM (#3409573)
Plagiarism is sometimes punished with the academic death penalty. If you were a journalist who plagiarized in the last 10 years then your career is over.
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Re:The Magna Carta Essay by granfalloon on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:43PM (#3409411)
@ InclinedPlane 3:

so would i.

i was just pointing out that there are different degrees of public outing. revoking his degree, getting him fired, and ruining his reputation with hsi colleagues is sufficient...no need to make him an international internet villain

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Re:The Magna Carta Essay by potatolicious on Friday December 30, 2011 @07:16PM (#3409641)
I don't know about you, but getting fired and having my professional reputation ruined is a fair bit worse than being an "internet villain".
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