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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Agreed that it does not wholly apply to schools.
I thought that even rogue publications, solely student sponsored items but distributed on school grounds were also subject the same censoring.
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Nope. Administrators often target underground newspapers, trying to get rid of them. And most of the time they're successful because, let's be frank, most of those underground newspapers aren't news, they're hate-filled gossip rags published by idiots. So the idiots don't realize that the administration isn't allowed to go after them.
I should add that while the underground papers enjoy full first amendment protections, they are also subject to other laws, such as libel and slander. And kids generally haven't taken any media ethics or law classes, so they tend to publish things that can get them in trouble legitimately.