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MySpace Suicide Case Could Make Us All Criminals
foxnews.com — Ever sign up for something online using a fake name or e-mail address? Lori Drew's being prosecuted for just that.
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- Christianptriot, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4I think what the woman did was deplorable, leading a young girl to commit suicide because of her bullying. But the using a fake name part that prosecutors are going after seems to me to be such an incredible stretch that, according to the article, gives an agreement with a business the power of a law that can be used to criminally prosecute.
By whatever means available and necessary, the federal government seems to want to control every aspect of human life in the US and North America. - Ridgeliner7, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3"Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user.
Prosecutors alleged that by helping create a MySpace account in the name of someone who didn't exist, Lori Drew, 49, violated the News Corp.-owned site's terms of service and thus illegally accessed protected computers. Legal experts warned Friday that such an interpretation could criminalize routine behavior on the Internet. After all, people regularly create accounts or post information under aliases for many legitimate reasons, including parody, spam avoidance and a desire to maintain their anonymity or privacy online or that of a child.
This new interpretation also gives a business contract the force of a law: Violations of a Web site's user agreement could now lead to criminal sanction, not just civil lawsuits or ejection from a site." - skeletonkeeper, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3So, where does this place all of those 'handles'. Has anyone actually stopped long enough to think on this one? Does the word "stalking" mean anything? So we put our real names, real addresses, and real information out there for the world and all the wackos in the world to see and to take note. Question remains which is better. To risk now being guilty of a crime and having the 'internet police' on your doorstep or to be fully honest and have some wacko crawling through your window??!!?
- LEL2007, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Nanny state. Something bad happens, pass a law to protect us.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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