The fall of the account
May 30, 2019
The message many students were surprised to see when they returned to Twitter on May 21 was, “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist.” For the WordPress website, a similar result: “This domain was parked.”
Their disappearance was met with mixed emotions; some relieved that the barrage was over, others disappointed that the incident didn’t end in a disciplinary case. My first reaction would be to sit down with the person and talk with them. — Head of School Bryn Roberts
Although Roberts has no additional information behind their decision to take it down, he shared that the administration took preliminary legal steps.
“We issued cease and desist orders which were forwarded to the person responsible for the accounts and the orders appear to have influenced the decision to take [down] the sites,” Roberts said. “However, it would be imprudent of me to speculate on the various factors that may have informed the decision to close the sites.”
Roberts explained that, had the account holder been caught, disciplinary action might not have been on his agenda.
“My first reaction would be to sit down with the person and talk with them,” he explained. “I’d love to talk with them more about why they did this. How can I help them understand what we’re doing and hear out what they’re saying?”