Gossip Girl and the bigger picture
For anyone interested in the legal issues surrounding Gossip Girl: this is an article from the Christian Science Monitor I saw a while back (February ‘06). It talks about the role schools should play in addressing offensive content on students’ online postings:
Schools grapple with policing students’ online journals
In an accompanying poll of about 400 readers, a little over half said that schools should allow student blogging, claiming that students have the same right to free speech as adults. 31.9% said that schools should step in if a student posts something offensive; 15.9% were in favor of banning students’ online postings altogether.
— Jason He