> The case will determine whether schools have the right to punish pupils for what they say off-campus. In the old days, we could separate our "school life" an

> The case will determine whether schools have the right to punish pupils for what they say off-campus. In the old days, we could separate our "school life" and "off-campus life" into neat little spheres. But these days we live our lives digitally. In this new world the spheres are not as separate as they used to be. The student may have typed the message while off campus, but her classmates may see the message while on-campus. So there is no clear geographic boundaries, and there are no "spheres" really. The same issue appears when a high school teacher publishes nude pictures of herself. She may have done it while off campus, but the students who see the picture may not see that as a separate sphere. In the digital world there are no distances. Everyone is everywhere at the same time.