[Rhodes22-list] Politics- 1st Amendment v. Defamatory Speech (That Delicate Balance)

[Ben Cittadino]

Friends and Neighbors;

The following news item appeared in "The Daily Briefing", a news and recent
court decision service published in the Garden State, today. Frankly, I'm
not sure how I feel about it. It is interesting though and I welcome your
learned observations and opinions.

"AG'S CYBER-BULLYING PUSH RAISES 1ST AMENDMENT ISSUES
Freedom of speech advocacy groups claim that Attorney General Anne M.
Milgram's August letter to all New Jersey college presidents calling for
penalties for students engaged in cyber-bullying could encroach on protected
speech on campuses. "An open-ended directive (to) punish the use of
computers for 'bullying' will invariably cause some administrators to
penalize lawful speech that falls within the protection of the First
Amendment," the advocates' letter to Milgram notes. The Student Press Law
Center, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and the New
Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists weighed in on the
issue ahead of a series of meetings between the Attorney General and college
administrators scheduled for this month. The push for anti-bullying
regulations on college campuses arose after the disclosure of gossip- and
slander-laden discussions by Princeton University undergraduates on
www.JuicyCampus.com earlier this year. 11-12-08 "

Best wishes,

Ben C.
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