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Censorship
of Student Internet Speech
The Effect of Diminishing Student Rights,
Fear of the Internet and Columbine
By David
Hudson
First Amendment Center
This paper was prepared for and delivered at the inaugural
Telecommunication Policy and Law Symposium in Washington,
D.C., on April 18, 2000, sponsored by the Quello Center for
Telecommunication & Law, and published in the Law Review of
the Detroit College of Law, Michigan State University. Reprinted
with permission.
Introduction
I: The Decline of Student Rights
- Tinker v. Des
Moines Independent Community School District
- Chipping Away at
Tinker
- Off-Campus Student
Conduct
II: Fear of the Internet and Effects
of Columbine
- Cyberphobia and
Censorship
- Responses to Columbine
III: Off-Campus Internet Speech Cases
- O'Brien v. Westlake
City Schools Board of Education
- Beussink v.
Woodland R-IV School District
- Emmett v. Kent
School District No. 415
- Beidler v. North
Thurston School District No. 3
- J.S. v. Bethlehem
Area School District
IV: Factors School Administrators
Should Consider in Regulating Student Internet Speech
Conclusion

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