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Stephen Downes

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Honestly, I don't think this sort of action has anything to do with content being posted on Facebook, and instead has everything to do with a student expressing his opinion and his school not liking it and reacting in heavy-handed fashion. After all, this sort of thing would happen to me when I was in school (yeah, I've always been outspoken) and that was long before Facebook. And it's funny to think that after however many years of education at Saint Augustine's College, the main lesson Roman Caple takes away from his graduation is that he does not live in a democracy. Here's Caple in this video:


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