What are the primary considerations to make when determining issues of student speech that occur in cyberspace?
Student speech and the Internet raise some important and complex issues for educators, students, and parents. As David Hudson explains on firstamendmentcenter.org, “The area remains muddled because the U.S. Supreme Court has never addressed a student Internet speech case. As the Pennsylvania Supreme Court wrote in 2002 in J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District: “[T]he advent of the Internet has complicated analysis of restrictions on speech.” The issue becomes only more important as more and more students not only access the Internet frequently but also create their own home pages on social-networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.” Initially, there was little law governing what was and wasn’t acceptable speech on the Internet. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t issue a ruling on Internet speech until 1997. In that year, the Court returned a verdict in the case of Reno v. ACLU that helped clarify how Internet speech should be treated in the future. The Court had been asked to r
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