Student transferred for making CS map based on school Options

[usr.c]

An interesting story on GameSpot reports via another source that a senior at a Texas-based High School was transferred to an alternative education center last month after they found out that he'd created a Counter-Strike map based on the school. According to the report, the student wasn't arrested or charged, but his home was searched by police who came across five swords, which it later turns out might have been decorative. The school took the action to transfer the student because he was was considered to have "engage[d] in conduct relating to a false alarm or report (including a bomb threat) or a terroristic threat involving a public school."

It's understandable that tensions would be high when it comes to this kind of topic, but doesn't this really go to show that there's a very fine line between preclusion and violating people's freedom? By the same token, shouldn't GTA's developers get thrown into prison for all the crimes that take place in NYC, SF and Miami? I don't know, what do you think?

Read the GameSpot article here and the Fort Ben Now report here.

[Goodpeople]

I agree man, but i think they wont do that because they actually wont have to go to any level when dealing with this kind of case with students.