The 'Fuck Everything' Cheerleader Gets How the World Works. The Supreme Court Justices Do Not. - Daily Beast

We are a country run largely by older people who do not use or understand the latest ways others use technology to speak, and those people make the tech and speech rules.

The Supreme Court has once again cleared the subterranean bar that most left-of-center Americans have for it, this time by ruling 8-1 on Wednesday that schools don’t have a right to punish students for non-disruptive social media speech that occurs away from school.

L., concerned the case of Brandi Levy, who, as a 14-year-old high school freshman, expressed her irritation over not making the varsity cheerleading squad by taking out her phone in a local convenience store, opening Snapchat, and declaring “Fuck schoolB

From there, Brandi’s family sued, life went on, Brandi made the cheerleading squad the next year, and her case made its way to the Supreme Court.

By now, so much time has passed since “fuck everything” that Brandi Levy just completed her freshman year of college and has probably moved on to TikTok.

If it was right and proper to discipline Brandi Levy for writing “fuck cheer” on a disappearing messaging app, then what other speech did schools have the right to regulate?

We are a country run disproportionately by older people who do not use or understand the latest ways other people use technology to speak, and those older people are in charge of making and interpreting rules around technology and speech?

But, back to the very low bar the Court cleared: a win for Brandi Levy means that schools can’t punish students for digital saltiness, although schools are still allowed to punish students for disruptive behavior like bullying or incitement.

A loss for Brandi Levy would have been devastating for student speech, and would have ushered in yet another era of the loss of individual liberty to religions and corporations.