Monopoly of legitimized violence

[supergee]

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

Comments

[matgb]

Yes, yes it is. Thus this would be criminal in the UK due to Computer Misuse laws, no idea about the various US jurisdictions but it's dodgy as fuck.