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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Missouri has responded effectively to cyber bullying via web sites and text messaging; has your state? After the Lori Drew case in Missouri, in which a MySpace account was used to bully 13-year old Megan Meier, who committed suicide, Missouri legislators passed laws criminalizing cyber-bullying, harassment and abuse, and schools created zero-tolerance policies. School authorities and [...]
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
As tends to happen, it appears that Missouri has decided to overcompensate for the mess with the whole Lori Drew/Megan Meier tragedy. After realizing that Lori Drew hadn't committed any actual crime, Missouri passed a new law making it a potential felony for being a jerk online. And, of course, with that new law in place, Missouri prosecutors have wasted little time in filing charges against all sorts...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
SpaceGhost sends in a story from San Antonio, TX: "Police have arrested a 16-year-old girl on charges of harassment under a new Texas law that took effect September 1, 2009. H.B. 2003 says a person commits a third degree felony if the person posts one or more messages on a social networking site with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten another person. Police say the harassment...
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Technology Toolkit (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Megan Meier was an emotionally vulnerable 13-year-old schoolgirl when Lori Drew, the mother of one of Megan�s former friends, decided to humiliate her Ultimately, Lori was found guilty of misdemeanor charges for her role in the online hoax that led to Megan�s suicide
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
In the wake of the whole Megan Meier/Lori Drew thing, politicians started shoving each other aside to introduce "anti-cyber bullying legislation" that would outlaw being a jerk . The whole thing was pretty ridiculous. People are going to be jerks. You can't outlaw it. Beyond just the First Amendment issue, the simple fact is some people will act like jerks some of the time. It happens. It...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
At a House hearing yesterday, Berin Szoka and Adam Thierer of the Progress and Freedom Foundation laid out the problems with the absurdly broad Megan Meier Cyber Bullying Prevention Act . Under the bill, introduced by Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), anyone convicted of "using electronic means to support severe, repeated and hostile behavior...with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass or cause...
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Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
You remember Lori Drew. She's the grown-up woman who in frontier times would probably have been run out of town, and definitely will burn in hell, for bullying a little girl into commiting suicide. Her conviction was overturned a couple of months ago, but now: Federal prosecutors have filed a notice of appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case , which means they may appeal a judge's ruling in July...
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Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Federal prosecutors moved to criminalize internet harassment last year by prosecuting Lori Drew. Lori Drew, as you may recall, is a Missouri woman who created a fictional MySpace profile named “Josh” and started an online relationship with Megan Meier, a teenage girl who may have spread gossip about Drew’s daughter at the local high school. [...]
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Federal prosecutors have filed a notice of appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, which means they may appeal a judge's ruling in July to throw out her case after a jury convicted her of three... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
This is incredible. Apparently the US prosecutor in the bogus Lori Drew case, which the judge finally tossed out in August is looking to appeal the decision . It's up to the US Solicitor General as to whether or not that actually happens, but just the fact that the prosecutor is still pushing this case is ridiculous. It was clearly an attempt to twist a law (unauthorized computer access) well beyond...
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CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Orin Kerr has a post at The Volokh Conspiracy noting that the government has filed a notice of appeal from the trial court's judgment dismissing the case and that such a notice preserve the right to appeal but does not...
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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Today Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause, the prosecutor in the Lori Drew case, filed a notice of appeal of the District Court's decision granting the motion to dismiss. It's...
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
According to an editorial in the New York Times, “Vague Cyberbullying Law,” “Lori Drew acted grotesquely if, as prosecutors charged, she went online and bullied her daughter’s classmate, a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide. A federal court was right, however, to throw out her misdemeanor convictions recently. The crimes she was found guilty [...]
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Law and Other Things (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
1. The theme of ‘the reshaping of history through the rewriting of signposts’ brought out in this op-ed piece in the New York Times yesterday in the context of changes made to road signs in Israel, evoked memories of similar activity back home. However, I often wonder if the preamble to the Indian constitution was one such signpost, and if the amendment of 1976 did anything more than try...
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majababadina | 07/06/2009
US District Judge George Wu acquitted a Missouri mother Lori Drew for her role in a MySpace hoax on Thursday. This MySpace hoax became the cause of a 13-year-old girl’s suicide in Lori’s neighbor.
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