Friday, November 28th, 2008...11:03 am
Internet User Convicted of Not Obeying Her User Agreement!
You know that fine print you have to click “I agree” to whenever you register at an internet site. What if you were held criminally liable for not reading it?
Lori Drew, the Missouri woman (who evidently rose from the 7th layer of hell,) who taunted a little girl into killing herself through email, was just convicted of “unauthorized access” to the website, Myspace, the reason being she misrepresented her personal info when she registered. This is a prosecutor’s certainly virtuous attempt to punish this woman for something there are no laws against, but it must not stand, as it leaves people vulnerable to criminal prosecution just by clicking through fine print in the privacy of their homes, and turns internet sites into legislators of law absolutely no one reads.
The prosecutor’s position is that we are to trust their choices for prosecution, something anyone with a real understanding of the mistakes criminal courts can make should know never to do.
Why not a law inspired by this case, a federal felony against menacing a minor or encouraging a minor to act against his/her own interests??
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August 26th, 2009 at 1:15 am
[...] is a whole different can of worms than the vulnerability of Times columnists. As I asserted in my blog on Drew’s conviction, there should be a law inspired by this case, a federal felony against menacing a minor or [...]
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