...and the Myspace.com saga continues...

BlackDrop · 2006-03-03, 02:13 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060303/...ce_suspensions

20 California students suspended over viewing web site:

COSTA MESA, Calif. - A middle school student faces expulsion for allegedly posting graphic threats against a classmate on the popular MySpace.com Web site, and 20 of his classmates were suspended for viewing the posting, school officials said.

Police are investigating the boy's comments about his classmate at TeWinkle Middle School as a possible hate crime, and the district is trying to expel him.

According to three parents of the suspended students, the invitation to join the boy's MySpace group gave no indication of the alleged threat. They said the MySpace social group name's was "I hate (girl's name)" and included an expletive and an anti-Semitic reference.

A later message to group members directed them to a nondescript folder, which included a posting that allegedly asked: "Who here in the (group name) wants to take a shotgun and blast her in the head over a thousand times?"

Because the creator of a posting can change its content at any time, it's unclear how much the students saw.

"With what the students can get into using the technology we are all concerned about it," Bob Metz, the district assistant superintendent of secondary education, said Wednesday.

Metz said the students' suspensions in mid-Febuary were appropriate because the incident involved student safety. Some parents however questioned whether the school overstepped its bounds by disciplining students for actions that occurred on personal computers, at home and after school hours.

Hamma · 2006-03-03, 03:10 PM

I saw this - have to deal with this crap everyday. Although we would never ban them for looking at it from home.. or at least I'd like to think we woulden't.

Ivan · 2006-03-03, 03:18 PM

Yet an other reason to hate MySpace.com

BUGGER · 2006-03-03, 03:40 PM

Ugg...

I use myspace....how come i never get that drama?

WildEagle · 2006-03-03, 04:21 PM

There was some dumbass wigger in the school district near mine that was retarded enough to put drugs nad guns on his site. He now has felony charges nad may get alotta time in jail. The government is somehow gonna think of a way to stop myspace in one way or another, I can smell it. BTW I have one that I don't even go to.

Ghryphen · 2006-03-03, 04:25 PM

and

Ivan · 2006-03-03, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Gryphon

and

you nazi

Biohazzard56 · 2006-03-03, 09:39 PM

Wildeagle, while that was dumb of that guy. Last time I checked it wasnt illegal to post pictures of drugs and guns. But if he had pictures of him with the drugs and guns, then it would be very easy for the police to get a warrant and if he was caught with it it would be a felony.

Myspace sucks but if you present a clear and present danger to others then the 1st Amendment is not a legitimate defense.

WildEagle · 2006-03-03, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Biohazzard56

Wildeagle, while that was dumb of that guy. Last time I checked it wasnt illegal to post pictures of drugs and guns. But if he had pictures of him with the drugs and guns, then it would be very easy for the police to get a warrant and if he was caught with it it would be a felony.

Myspace sucks but if you present a clear and present danger to others then the 1st Amendment is not a legitimate defense.

iIforgot to put that it was pics with him and the the drugs. Gryphon

thank you for finding my typo that I didn't notice