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To: LindyBill who wrote (168168)	5/31/2006 8:38:11 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793853

but I am not sure many of those in attendance were really comfortable with letting all this offensive joking be You really have to wonder what kind of childhoods these people had. What a bunch of goody-goodies. The trouble with the Internet is that our ability to communicate has outraced the development of communication mores in the new medium. People use the Internet conversationally, like they would talk amongst themselves. Kids swear and act like kids when the grownups aren't listening. The problem is, on the Internet, the entire planet is listening. So where speech would be private in a different setting in the real world, the uninvited can now get a taste of that private speech. So there is a much greater chance of someone being offended, or threatened. True threats doctrine was so obscure in the past that my Con Law II prof had never heard of it. With the Internet being such a popular means of communication, it is really coming to the fore. All these off-school premises speech cases are good examples. This is speech that amongst friends used to be harmless venting, but on the Internet it is a felony. Derek