Thursday, October 23, 2014

Syracuse Internet policy makes everything ‘harassment,’ student reps say

Syracuse Internet policy makes everything ‘harassment,’ student reps say:
"Policy language should focus on ‘threats of violence, obscenity, child pornography, harassing communications’
Syracuse University students acting like jerks online – or just arguing heatedly – could be punished under school policy.
That’s because the school’s Computer and Electronic Communications Policy defines harassment as sending “annoying” or “offensive” messages to others.
The Student Association wants to clamp down on such vague and unenforceable terms.
It passed a resolution earlier this month asking the school to make the harassment language more specific and concrete, according to The Daily Orange."

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