quincy
Senior Member
A thread was started by a visitor to this site* and it has since been deleted - I am not sure why. Perhaps he deleted it himself, or perhaps he included a link to a YouTube video?
Whatever the reason for the deletion, the subject of his post was school censorship with a mention of a worldwide internet dance fad called the "Harlem Shake." People, often students, make videos of themselves doing the Harlem Shake and then they post their dance videos to a hosting YouTube channel.
Very recently, in Milford, Michigan, several high school students filmed their own version of the Harlem Shake, using one of their high school classrooms as a setting. The dance video and another video produced by the students were posted on YouTube.
Because the students used the school as a setting for the video, and because the content of the video violated the school's student code of conduct (with its vulgarity, indecency, racial slurs), the school was given reason to suspend the 30 participating students (some who appeared in one video, some who appeared in both) and it did.
Internet content is monitored - not only by friends and family but by schools and employers. It is important to keep this in mind before publishing anything online. You need to be aware of negative consequences that can come from publishing questionable (even if not illegal) material.
Whatever the reason for the deletion, the subject of his post was school censorship with a mention of a worldwide internet dance fad called the "Harlem Shake." People, often students, make videos of themselves doing the Harlem Shake and then they post their dance videos to a hosting YouTube channel.
Very recently, in Milford, Michigan, several high school students filmed their own version of the Harlem Shake, using one of their high school classrooms as a setting. The dance video and another video produced by the students were posted on YouTube.
Because the students used the school as a setting for the video, and because the content of the video violated the school's student code of conduct (with its vulgarity, indecency, racial slurs), the school was given reason to suspend the 30 participating students (some who appeared in one video, some who appeared in both) and it did.
Internet content is monitored - not only by friends and family but by schools and employers. It is important to keep this in mind before publishing anything online. You need to be aware of negative consequences that can come from publishing questionable (even if not illegal) material.
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