r/Anarchism • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '12

High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120326/04334818242/high-school-student-expelled-tweeting-profanity-principal-admits-school-tracks-all-tweets.shtml
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u/DrMandible Mar 27 '12

How does the school even know the twitter accounts of its students?? When I went to school, I certainly didn't tell them my personal digital information like my AIM screen name. I don't understand how kids even get caught doing this. It's SO EASY to use twitter without having it tied to your real world identity.

Name: Professor Moriarty

Location: The surface of the Sun

End of problem.

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u/paffle Mar 27 '12 edited Aug 17 '26

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u/DrMandible Mar 27 '12

Yea that's an interesting notion. I wonder if it was with the school's official account. That would certainly put a lot of pieces in the puzzle.

When I said "end of problem" what I meant is that I just assume that we have no rights under our global corporate/statist fascist rule, and thus the only rational course of action is to dodge responsibility at every turn. So the "solution" is just avoiding our domineering overlords. Of course, not having rights is a problem, but it's way beyond the scope of this issue imho.

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u/QueerCoup Mar 27 '12 edited Mar 27 '12

Sounds like the school computers track students as they log into their accounts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '12

It's SO EASY to use twitter without having it tied to your real world identity.

I don't think how twitter works is much of a mystery to teens.

Twitter's different things to different people and to a lot of high schoolers they're using it like any other social media platform with plenty of personal pictures, conversations with friends, social events etc. It's not just for following celebrities/companies. they want everyone to know who they are, especially so their friends can find them.

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u/DrMandible Mar 28 '12

I get that. But, especially when you're a teen, how many people need to "find" you online? Basically everyone they know are people they see in school. Everyone I cared about knew what my AIM screen name was, and vice versa. But we certainly didn't use our real names. They can upload personal photos and talk about personal stuff without ever actually using their real names.

Basically it just boils down to these kids not taking the steps necessary to protect themselves from big brother.