Jim Harper at the Technology Liberation Front has a post up about a group that is holding a conference about issues such as cyber-bullying. There's a case in the federal courts now involving a woman named Lori Drew. By all accounts, she's a very sick excuse for humanity. You'd have to be in order to be a middle aged woman who cyber bullies a bipolar 13 year old girl so badly that she ends up committing suicide.
The interesting thing about her case is that the federal government is going after her on the grounds that she violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing MySpace, against their terms of service, in order to commit a criminal act. Her crime was intentional infliction of emotional distress. If she's convicted, that'll be it for cyber bullies. Parents of victims of cyber bullying will be able to take their case to the local U.S. Attorney, instead of having to take it to the principle.
Unfortunately, that's probably how a lot of these cases will have to be resolved. Granted, if I were a teenager again, not a Christian and being cyber bullied by my peers, I would photoshop their faces onto beastiality and Japanese bondage porn and distribute them around the school. Nothing says "two can play at this game, jackass" like the bully seeing his face photoshopped onto a donkey screwing a fat chick.
The interesting thing about her case is that the federal government is going after her on the grounds that she violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing MySpace, against their terms of service, in order to commit a criminal act. Her crime was intentional infliction of emotional distress. If she's convicted, that'll be it for cyber bullies. Parents of victims of cyber bullying will be able to take their case to the local U.S. Attorney, instead of having to take it to the principle.
Unfortunately, that's probably how a lot of these cases will have to be resolved. Granted, if I were a teenager again, not a Christian and being cyber bullied by my peers, I would photoshop their faces onto beastiality and Japanese bondage porn and distribute them around the school. Nothing says "two can play at this game, jackass" like the bully seeing his face photoshopped onto a donkey screwing a fat chick.
You have a sick imagination, you know that? :)
There but for the grace of God am I not worse...
That was CS Lewis' response to the critique that the church is full of bad people and shouldn't be trusted. Broken people are more likely to come to God, and so you can make a case for people being more messed up in church than outside it.
Not many wise, not many mighty, but the humble things of the world to confound the great.....really, really badly 'paraphrased'.