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“This is a cautionary tale that there is no such thing as privacy on the Web. If you have something critical and unkind to say about a professor or student, I suggest you do it the old-fashioned way: Say it to yourself.” Kaplan thinks the opposite is true. “What our university did will have a chilling effect on students,” this american life he said. “We need some First Amendment training at this american life this university.” — Rob Capriccioso Comments The irony drips I will never understand why schools think that it is acceptable to compel students that are being “punished” for expressing this american life views to express views about the danger of expressing views. This story is probably missing some key points regarding the school’s process, and whether the students investigated the possibility of suing their school, but otherwise it is just dripping with irony. At a very minimum, a lawsuit against the school would probably shed some light on what kind of comments the school considers to be acceptable (e.g.
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