The policy informs students and teachers that they will be held legally responsible for anything posted online, including material deemed defamatory, obscene, proprietary or legally libelous. The policy targets threats or other comments posted online that could cause a disruption in the school or threaten the safety of a student or employee.

That's the case in Texas, where an assistant principal is suing two students and their parents over a MySpace page that depicted the administrator as a lesbian and contained obscene comments, pictures and graphics, according to the court filing