For this blog post, I chose to analyze the argument about Amanda Tatro and her friends(classmates) who post some comments on her facebook page. I think that the punishment is unfair since according to the criminal investigation, she didn't intent to harm anyone; however, Uni. of Minnesota put charges on her with a failing grade. It is not acceptable because according to amendment I we have right to speech as long as it's not harmful. Uni. of Minnesota argues that it may regulate what students say on social networking websites on their personal time. But I would say she was just giving her opinion on disruption. I would also argue that since she was not a journalist, her way of saying her opinion is probably different or may be in a negative way, but it wasn't intended. If it's her fault in this case, then in the future, there won't be any student who is protected to give his/her right to speech. Usually colleges solve their issues by making students more aware, educate by the topic and providing them counseling instead of punishing students for typing their opinion on social networking websites. And the most important thing is she didn't post the comment on campus so that she didn't waste her uni. time on that post. Therefore, it should harm uni. policies.

University of Minnesota.