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So, instead of cracking down drug dealers and gangs they decide to arrest a minor for making a list of how hot/ugly the girls are at his school? Glad to see the police force there is hard at work.
I think there's no question that comments on a Facebook page are protected speech.
So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
When the contestants are entered against their will and described using racial slurs? The charge in this case was unreasonable, but on the other hand so was the kid's behaviour. If a TV show did pick on fifty random women from the street and start pointing out the flaws in their appearances then people would be rightfully upset about that too...
So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
When the contestants are entered against their will and described using racial slurs? The charge in this case was unreasonable, but on the other hand so was the kid's behaviour. If a TV show did pick on fifty random women from the street and start pointing out the flaws in their appearances then people would be rightfully upset about that too...
So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
When the contestants are entered against their will and described using racial slurs? The charge in this case was unreasonable, but on the other hand so was the kid's behaviour. If a TV show did pick on fifty random women from the street and start pointing out the flaws in their appearances then people would be rightfully upset about that too...
Isn't this exactly what entertainment shows do? I suppose they're not random women, but celebrities, but...
So, instead of cracking down drug dealers and gangs they decide to arrest a minor for making a list of how hot/ugly the girls are at his school? Glad to see the police force there is hard at work.
existence of drug dealers and gangs supports and promotes the police force and power increase. Getting habit of freely expressing your non conformist opinions is a path to subversion of existing power (dis)balance.
>The list ranked 50 female students and in describing them, rated their body parts and used racial slurs. The teen also is being accused of printing out the list and passing it around during lunch periods at the high school on Jan. 14, the Tribune reported.
ie, creating and distributing what amounts to hate-speech. This goes much further than a hot-or-not list, rather definitively landing on the abuse side of the line. Not completely definitively, as I don't know the contents, nor the culture of the area, but it seems to be pretty clear from a legal perspective.
I've got to assume that the headline is wrong; it's not the Facebook page that got him into trouble, but that he passed his list around while at school. I think there's no question that comments on a Facebook page are protected speech.
People have been doing this since the beginning of time. There was a south park episode about "the girls" having a list like this. There was a "Recess" (another cartoon, this one geared towards adolescents) with the same plot.
It's a common theme because exactly this behavior has been happening forever.
This type of thing is part of childhood. It sucks, and the kid should be ostracized by his peers for it, not locked in a cage. You're not going to be able to legislate social interactions between kids, and you shouldn't be trying.
/I was teased relentlessly as a kid. It sucked, but nobody was arrested for it, thank god; we were kids.