Aspies For Freedom

How the video how the State of Arizona violate my free rights and someone tell the school to take away my Internet that violate the 1990 American with Disabilities Act.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHS-03520SA

I don't get it. Why would you want someone to tell the the school to take away your internet? And how would that violate the Disabilities Act?

I'm trying to figure out, do you want the internet or not? I'm having trouble understanding the video, but I'm pretty wiped out from studying for midterms so I'm probably missing something fairly obvious.

I think he's trying to say that someone told the school to take away his internet, and apparently they did so.  The video is pretty unclear, but the music is a lot more upbeat than what you would expect from someone complaining about something.

Couldn't the OP just log onto an unsecured wireless network? They're pretty much anywhere people are, especially around universities. That's what I did when my university blocked my ethernet connection for a week because I accidentally let someone download a song from me (and somehow the record company people found out or something). There really isn't anything stopping anyone from logging onto the internet whenever or where ever they want nowadays.

Because theft is ALWAYS the answer!

PS:  that was a sarcastic statement.

Talk to an attorney.

Gareth, why would someone block AFF? Its not like Vampirefreaks or anything.
At high-school they block everything on the computer. Myspace is blocked (for good reasons), anything relating to wrestling (not a fan but had to mention it) and about a billion other sites that are similar to any of those.

How is using a wireless network theft? I always assumed that if they don't secure a network it means that they are fine with other people using it. If they do care, why wouldn't they just password-protect it?

Never underestimate the cloolessness of the average end (L)user.

So, then, if you don't put a fence around my yard, you're fine with other people using it for whatever purpose they want.

If you forget to lock all my doors and windows one night, you're fine with someone coming into my house and making use of anything in it.

It's pretty common for them to block any site where a discussion forum is a big part of the site.  Many institutions see sites like this as nothing more than a social gathering site and not as something with any worthwhile research possibilities, regardless of the actual case.  They often have policies banning social networking sites as in many cases, they often (obviously not always) have little or no educational value and eat up tons of bandwidth.

This may be a misunderstanding as old as Benjamin Franklin.  As you may know, in 1721 at the age of 15 Benjamin Franklin was publishing a newspaper called the "New England Courant".  He printed controversial editorials and somone wanted to publish opposing opinions and when Franklin refused the man threatened to sue for infringing on his freedom of speech. Franklin replied that freedom of speech does not apply when you are using someone else's printing press. That has been upheld by courts for nearly 300 years now. It applies to schools and businesses that allow students or workers to use their press and their internet access.  The owner of the press or the internet access makes the rules.  If a person can prove that he was discriminated against because of race, sex or a handicap etc, they may have a point, but it has nothing to do with freedom of speech.