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Not a lawyer, but I think you are right that the case will end up hinging on this; my guess is that the argument will be that having a whole bunch of messed up
by jonnycomputer 3y ago
Not a lawyer, but I think you are right that the case will end up hinging on this; my guess is that the argument will be that having a whole bunch of messed up social-media addicts at school is disruptive to the educational environment, preventing them from fulfilling their mission.
- woodruffw 3y ago> my guess is that the argument will be that having a whole bunch of messed up social-media addicts at school is disruptive to the educational environment, preventing them from fulfilling their mission. I don't think this is wrong per se, but it's hard to see a court accepting that broad environmental concerns of this sort fall under schools' purviews. Put another way: if schools can sue social media companies for disrupting the educational environment, what stops them from suing oil companies for making the world uninhabitable for their students? The problem isn't factuality (the school is arguably correct in both cases!), but scope.