Monopoly of legitimized violence
Jan. 23rd, 2015 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Illinois schools are requiring students to hand over their Facebook passwords. Needless to say, this is purely intended to protect victims and is not in any way a totalitarian power grab. As they explain,
The main driver behind the new cyberbullying law is to minimize destructive behavior associated with it, including “antisocial behavior, such as vandalism, shoplifting, skipping [classes] and dropping out of school, fighting, using drugs and alcohol, sexual harassment, and sexual violence,”And of course failure to respect the principal's authoritye