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One more time, the internet is a public place.

The attorney for a Radnor High School senior arrested in connection with a video that contained a poem with violent imagery said Friday that his client never threatened anyone.

Arthur T. Donato Jr., a Media lawyer, said Zaidee S. Harrison, 18, of Wayne, did not send anything to a public or school official, faculty member, or any other public employee.

Donato said she posted on her best friend’s Facebook page a video of herself reciting the poem. Her friend was not threatened by the poem or its images, Donato said.

More at the link, including excerpts.

By these standards, someone might report somebody for “Who Killed Cock Robin.”

Aside:

This is not just a case of overreaction on the part of the authorities. It is a logical result of Facebook’s default position to strip every user’s data naked on the net.

There is an old joke that a negligee is something you think you can see through, but can’t.

Facebook “privacy settings”* are something you think others can’t see through, but they can.

It’s this kind of stuff that’s going to kill Facebook and Twitter.

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*It is to laugh.

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