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Anyone who studied law or knows enough about it
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so we made a video and put it up on facebook n it was a day of us skiing kinda videoblog style n at then end of the day we got in shit from an RA in our rez for having our stuff in the hallway. now the only thing in the video is her voice saying no put it in your room. and then later in the video blog part of it we say shes a bitch. but she is never identified and her face is never shown. now there charging us harassing behavior towards a residents staff cuz they saw the video. now besides freedom of opinion i need something i can say like it doesnt show her face or identify her therefore its not harasment like something like that, basically i need to know if theres anyloop hole so i cant say its not harasment
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it would help if we knew if you are american or canadian. canadians have stricter freedom of speech laws. also i know nothing about law and i am pulling this out of my ass because i think i read something like this in another thread.
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im canadian, and the freedom of speech part flys cuz it says spreadin hate towards an identifiable group, and considering im not identifying anyone thats clear, im just worried about the harasment i need an excuse to say that it cant be harasment because...
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^ partly right, i study law but in the UK so i can't help you much, but when you say charging do you mean criminal or civil charges, also it might just be in breach of school policy or w/e. The thing about the person's face or name not identified, that might not matter, since if it the person that you guys have in the video pressing charges all that is needed is that the RA himself feels harassed or offended or w/e.
That being said in general harassment means that you follow that person on a consistent basis, making threatening phone calls, or just generally abuse them on a repeated basis, from what you said that doesn't sound like harassment to me, but be aware that anyone can anyone to court if they feel they have a substantial basis, whether they win or lose is another thing but courts are a bitch.
But like I said these are just general pointers, I don't know the Canadian law on harassment and therefore can't really tell you anything for sure.
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