Web site crosses the line. (Update: education news from schools, businesses, research and government agencies).Parents and school administrators in Southern California were successful in closing an allegedly hurtful Web site, saying its information was harmful to children. On schoolscandals.com, a Shout Box included profanities and disparaging remarks against certain students and their parents. The site featured links for chat rooms An interactive, online discussion (by keyboard) about a specific topic that is hosted on the Internet or on a BBS. On the Internet, chat rooms are available from major services such as AOL, individual Web sites and the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) system, the Net's traditional computer conferencing. Chat rooms are set up to handle group discussions, and everyone sees what everyone else types in, although two people can decide to break off and have their own keyboard chat. for about nearly 100 Southern California middle and high schools, particularly in the San Fernando Valley. Chat room messages called students "retard," "whores" or one, a "homosexual with a pigeon-like face and penguin-like body." Before the site shut down To quit all applications and turn off the computer., principals at Las Virgenes Unified School District had previously ordered a block against the site on all campus computers. Ken Tennen, an attorney for the Web site owners, had stated before the site shut down that it did not violate any law and was a non-profit, opinion-based, student-run bulletin board system (communications, application) bulletin board system - (BBS, bboard /bee'bord/; after a physical piece of board on which people can pin messages written on paper for general consumption - a "physical bboard"). A computer and associated software which typically provides an electronic message database where people can log in and leave messages. Messages are typically split into topic groups similar to the newsgroups on Usenet (which is like a distributed BBS).. According to a 1996 law, only those sites that hold the right to create and edit material on their sites can be held liable for content, stated Mark Radcliffe, a cyberspace and new media law attorney. |
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