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Being an ass on Twitter is one thing, but being an ass on Twitter and sending those upset with you to the school's suicide prevention hotline is beyond the pale
by s73v3r_ 9y ago
Being an ass on Twitter is one thing, but being an ass on Twitter and sending those upset with you to the school's suicide prevention hotline is beyond the pale.
- TheRealPomax 9y agobut not beyond the law, so an analysis that completely ignores "who was the biggest ass" and instead focuses on what laws apply to this situation, and to which degree interpretation can be extended, is most refreshing.
- protomyth 9y agoCausing your school's suicide hotline to be flooded with troll phone calls presents a very arguable case for substantial disruption, depending on the evidence. Which points to the part of the law that might apply.
- rusk 9y agoExcept that if you read to the end it wasn’t her school it was another. So she’s cunning as well as nasty.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoAnd the conclusion was that the person in question could be disciplined, or even fired for the suicide hotline stunt.
- ThurmaUman 9y agowtf. That wasn't the conclusion. Halve that. Disciplinary action might be legally justified. It would clearly be a dangerous case to lose for the University (setting up some nasty jurisprudence, among other damages), so it's unlikely to happen.
- TheRealPomax 9y agoThe conclusion of the article is quite intentionally left off because even after that analysis, it turns out that the law isn't like programming (as the article literally points out) and even after looking at what the law, and judicial reason, allows for, there is no clear cut answer here. There are too many grey areas for there to be "one conclusion". And of course the conclusion in court in cases like these is, as it should be: the judge's decision based on all the information surfaced during the trial to help them reach their decision.