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In reply to the discussion: Jail time could await North Carolina students who go after teachers online [View all]JoeyT
(6,785 posts)57. Truth should always be a defense.
I was ok with it right up until they announced telling the truth would get you the same penalty as making stuff up. It's bollocks.
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Jail time could await North Carolina students who go after teachers online [View all]
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
OP
what about other public servants or just joe blow. should politicians also be protected
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#8
i was saying should other public servants get the same protections and if not why not.
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#11
Mostly because they generally don't have contact with hordes of kids as part of their jobs,
Jackpine Radical
Dec 2012
#29
Good. Practical jokes kill, like they just did in the UK with the nurse.
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#3
shouldnt the law extend to all people then that juveniles stalk. seems that everyone should have pr
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#27
i think the point was if they are a crap teacher then the students should be able to say that
loli phabay
Dec 2012
#17
If the students are telling the truth, not as they see it, but actual, factual truth,
Occulus
Dec 2012
#19
So you think that means I support a student's right to bully a teacher online?
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#31
One would think falsely accusing another of a crime, particularly one so heinous,
Occulus
Dec 2012
#40
The phrasing has enough wiggle room enough to make misuse by authoritarians inevitable.
LeftyMom
Dec 2012
#54
i agree that criminalizing student speech is a bad precedent (unless the speech is within the
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#56