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RT @AlexCTaliadoros: You arrested a student for writing a column in her school newspaper.

A tweet reports that a student was arrested for writing a column in her school newspaper, sharing the news with an accompanying image.

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Paul Graham is a well-known programmer, venture capitalist, and co-founder of Y Combinator, the influential startup accelerator. This is a retweet from 2013 of a post by Alex Taliadoros, reacting to the arrest of a student journalist. The underlying event: in 2013, a high school student in Mississippi was handcuffed and arrested by school police for writing an op-ed in the school newspaper criticizing the school's administration. The case became a flashpoint in debates over student free speech, the role of police in schools, and the limits of First Amendment protections for minors — especially after the school district justified the arrest by claiming the column caused a "disruption." The student later sued and settled for $35,000.

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