Can TBOC! be shut down by administration or by lawsuit?
Let’s think about this one for a minute. Every time something goes up on this site that the SLU Republicans don’t like, they run to the administration crying “foul.” The unfortunate reality is, “political orientation” is not covered in the SLU discriminatory harassment policy. And, as long as posts made over the SLU network do not violate the AUP, there is no action the university can take, short of mere bullish intimidation tactics, which they have done before, to no avail. What about lawsuits? Well, we’ve outlined in a pretty clear fashion how they wouldn’t hold up. But, besides the slander/libel/defamation laws, there is also the fact that contributors (aka tboccers) blog anonymously–or most of them do. Who would be served with papers? The blog itself? You can’t really do that. And again, this is all aside from the fact that no case against TBOC would hold any water, legally speaking. Sorry kids. In short, the SLU administration can’t touch TBOC, and neither can the SLU Republicans
