'LOL' in a Facebook Death Threat?
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against an Indiana middle school for expelling three students who allegedly threatened to kill other classmates on Facebook, claiming the girls' right to free speech had been violated and that the use of emoticons and "LOL" showed they were only joking. Three 14-year-old girls were expelled from Griffith Middle School in Lake County, Ind. in early February following comments they'd made on Facebook about "whom [among their classmates] they would kill, and how they would accomplish this feat, if they had the opportunity,"...
Published By: ABC News - Thursday, 26 April, 2012
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