The situation
As school lets out, a fight breaks out between two classmates of yours. Within seconds there is a ring of people and, as always, more phones recording than hands pulling them apart. You take yours out too — almost without thinking. That night the video is already running through three groups and someone has posted it to a school meme account, with the nickname of one of the boys who fought and comments mocking how he went down. That boy did not come to school today. A friend messages you: “send me the whole video, yours looks better.” Your video is the only one that shows how it all started — who provoked whom. You have your phone in your hand and three possible paths for that file.
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Facilitator’s notes
This scenario separates three roles that the fight mixed together: recording, spreading and helping. The law protects the classmate who was exposed: disclosing the image of a child or adolescent in a way that stigmatises them is a criminal offence for an adult (Art. 186, Ley 74-25), and spreading posts in order to humiliate or degrade may be cyber-harassment (Art. 123, Ley 74-25). Among students, the coexistence layer applies first: posting about a member of the community without their consent is a serious breach, and videos and memes that attack dignity are a very serious breach (Arts. 20 and 23, Ordenanza 05-2023 — the MINERD school-coexistence rules); and depending on age, a child under 13 is never criminally liable, while from 13 to 17 the case may reach the specialised justice system for adolescents, whose purpose is educational (Arts. 223 and 225, Ley 136-03 — the Code for the Protection of Children and Adolescents). On the options: b understands something a does not see — that video is also the evidence of who provoked whom, and handing it to an adult at the school helps due process instead of feeding the mockery; deleting it (a) stops your copy, but may erase the only proof of how it all started. Option d is brave and compatible with b. Option c is the exact trap: “one more copy” is precisely how a video gets everywhere. Question for the group: why does recording feel neutral, when the camera also decides who gets exposed?
The team’s commentary
Two readings of this scenario
Español — The Spanish version is the reference text — the legal verification described in the audit report was carried out on it.
Audit report — the independent legal review of this material, with the errors we found and corrected (page in Spanish).
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