University Told It Can't Sanction Students For Their Facebook Comments
from the free-speech-and-all... dept
Last year we had a discussion about some students at the University of Calgary, who were put on probation for making some comments about a professor on Facebook. Apparently, the students went to court to protest this move and said that such a move violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. It seems a court agreed. Michael Geist points us to the news that the court has said that sanctioning the students based on Facebook comments is a violation of the Charter. The University had argued that the comments were defamation (when they looked more like a general opinion) and that it was not subject to the Charter. The court absolutely disagreed. Nice to see free speech being respected.Filed Under: canada, comments, free speech, sanctions, university, university of calgary
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Unless the dude was a total c*$%
I would judge the morals of the poster against the person they are diss'in.
It is a sort of cyber bullying, harrasment that has dogged social websites since they became popular, and a practice that well is cowardly.
Say what you think to their face & not to their facebook.
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Hmmm.
Student: "Mr. Teacher, you're not a very nice person"
Teacher: "STFU"
Facebook way
Student: "To the World: Personally, I think Mr Teacher was a general asshole"
Teacher: "Ohhh shit"
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Yeah... Too bad we have to go to Canada to have that freedom of speech...
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Del boys way indeed.. like I need clarification from an idiot lol
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Re: Hmmm.
If the professor is still a general asshole, then yea, I have every right to let the whole university know my opinion of said professor. Facebook is most likely the quickest way to do so.
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Freedom
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I think there would be less cyber bullying if the kids in grade school were permitted to work out their social problems on the playground.
....bully beats up a few kids, kids learn to leave bully alone...bully gets too big for his britches....new bully comes to the school or a group of kids works together or that one shy cute girl... gives bully a good beating out by the back gate.....
Even the kids that just watch learn invaluable lessons.
Of course now days you would need a secure campus so that kids just used their fists and didn't bring their parents stub nose to school.
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Re: Unless the dude was a total c*$%
or you forgot /sarc. Whichever way I lol!
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Freedom of Speech?
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Actually
I've seen teachers who have been at the Uni for 20+ years get put on academic probation for low scores from their students.
They were taken off of research and given shitty remedial classes to get their student evaluations back up.
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Link is brokemn
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