" First Amendment extends to MySpace, court says"

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By the Associated Press
April 10th, 2007

A student at Greencastle Middle School in Indiana made comments on a MySpace page that criticized the principal and the school's policy on body piercings. The student didn't make the page she only made comments on it. And after the school principal found these comments on the MySpace page the student was placed on nine months of probation because her comments were ruled "obscene."

However, the student appealed the ruling saying that it violated her free-speech rights. According to the article, the Court of Appeals said she was protected and that the ruling did violate her free-speech rights.

I believe the initial ruling that the courts made to have her put on probation was wrong. Therefore, it was good that she appealed the ruling because she was right in what she was doing. She was exercising her right of free speech through a MySpace page and the final decision of the court was the right decision.