MySpace Backlash

An interesting story about how schools and parents are reacting to MySpace. The author contests that the problem of online predators is real, but exaggerated. The more difficult issue is whether parents or schools should monitor and censor what teenagers post to their MySpace profiles. Schools may be overreacting and violating first amendment precedents, which protect student speech unless it "materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others."