tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830896519376752795.post7391812170172415344..comments2009-12-24T16:58:20.498-05:00Comments on Facilitating Online Communities: Support Lori Drew Blogideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087454878337362720noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830896519376752795.post-2446999352202139282008-11-29T09:17:00.000-05:002008-11-29T09:17:00.000-05:00What Jeri says is right. We need to have lie detec...What Jeri says is right. We need to have lie detectors on every post. A button that you can click and learn whether the poster is telling the truth or not. Megan should be able to call Sarah a slut but now she's dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830896519376752795.post-56879058387223905382008-11-28T02:13:00.000-05:002008-11-28T02:13:00.000-05:00We are obviously going to have to agree to disagre...We are obviously going to have to agree to disagree. <BR/>If these women lived right down the street from each other, then, what was so wrong with calling and telling the woman to put her daughter back in check? Or better yet, walk down the block?<BR/>I will tell you a story, not that you want to hear it, but you told me to suck your dick so you will read my ramblings. My son is 13, in the beginning of the school year he had an issue with a kid in the neighborhood. I told my kid to handle it and when he couldn't handle it anymore to let me know. It escalated on school property, he hit my kid in his neck and knocked him out. I waited for the school and the boy's parents to do something and got nothing. So, I waited for that boy to come out of that school and got right in his face, cussed him a blue streak, and filed assault charges on him. Was it the right thing to do? The assault charges, yes, otherwise no...but I got my point across and I didnt need to pretend to be 13 to do it. <BR/>Lori Drew is NOT a normal human being. I dont think she needs to be in jail but she sure could use a psych eval. Who does that? Who gets off on the misery of a child? the pain of others? A Narcissist does. Megan Meier called the girl a slut? So what! Is it true? If not, then move on. It must hold some truth if they got so pissed off about it.<BR/>I also don't agree with suicide. I find it to be extraordinarily selfish and noone made that decision but her. As the parents said, though, it was like they handed her a loaded gun.<BR/>If Lori Drew had handed the girl a cigarette or a beer, she would be facing hellfire and damnation. She should at least get the same punishment, she contributed to the delinquency of a minor and was obviously very proud of it.<BR/>Once again, I understand the need to protect your child. Trust me, I do. (But) if all this started over being called a slut, they are truly to be felt sorry for. I've been called many things in my life but a slut was never one of them, do you want to know why? Because I'm not one, but if I was, I would deal with it and move on.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11870401790054315440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830896519376752795.post-75469468591266063432008-11-27T12:21:00.000-05:002008-11-27T12:21:00.000-05:00How exactly did MySpace violate this woman's right...How exactly did MySpace violate this woman's rights? <BR/><BR/>MySpace has no right to request personal information from any of it's users. Neither Lori nor Megan should have needed to supply personal info? MySpace is trying to use this incident as a reason to further violate the privacies of it's users. I am against strange websites soliciting personal information from the web community users.<BR/><BR/>Let's take a look at the issues:<BR/><BR/>"The opening argument in the Lori Drew case may hint at just how difficult it will be to keep the case focused on the actual charges of computer fraud and misuse, rather than Drew's liability for the suicide of Megan Meier."<BR/><BR/>"Drew has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and accessing computers without authorization. She could be sentenced to as many as 20 years in prison if convicted of all counts."<BR/><BR/>Most people want to talk about the moral issue but this is a legal case.<BR/><BR/>There are supposedly two choices upon registration at a forum. A user can either select the "I Accept" button and receive the account or hit the "I Do Not Accept" button and not get the account. An alternative is to supply false info which is a rejection of the terms of service and receive the account access. By supplying false information the user has rejected the terms of service. Therefore, MySpace's terms of service are not legally binding. If they are binding, under what jurisdiction? Their headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California. The defendant resided in Missouri. Missouri has since passed a law against cyberbullying. But most web users don't live in Missouri.<BR/><BR/>"Judge Wu could decide to throw out the case. Steward filed a motion to dismiss on grounds that the government failed to prove that Drew or her alleged co-conspirators knew that they were violating the terms-of-service."<BR/><BR/>Drew did not violate the terms. She rejected them by submitting false information. She asserted her right to privacy and rejected any claim that MySpace might make to that private information.<BR/><BR/>"MySpace has rules. A lot of them. There are nine pages of terms and conditions. The long list of prohibited content includes sexual material. And users must be at least 14."<BR/><BR/>Since the minimum age to register an account on MySpace is 14, Megan herself breached the terms of service. Should not her mother be facing the same charges since she knowingly allowed her child to access computers without authorization? <BR/><BR/>Megan had been doing her own shitflinging on MySpace. Megan Meirer had angered the Drews by calling Sarah a "lesbian." Since Megan also was engaged in "verbal abuse" of the defendant's child, she was either practicing her own freedom of speech or she was "cyberbully". Why are the slights that Megan aimed at others belittled? Speaking freely in all modes (expository, narrative and dramatic) is part of web culture and it's not going to change much because people can and should be able to do and say what they want online.<BR/><BR/>"But there is much that is odd about Lori Drew. Drew, then 47, told police she felt better when she learned Megan Meier had previously considered suicide, before she hanged herself in a wardrobe of her Missouri home a year ago"<BR/><BR/>There is nothing odd about Lori Drew. She is a normal everyday Internet user. It was a coincidence that she told someone to drop dead and they did. <BR/><BR/>I feel sorry for Megan and her parents also but the sole responsibility lies with Megan and her family. I fail to make a connection between telling someone to "go jump in the lake" on a web forum and that person actually jumping in the lake. So suck my dick. (But please don't quote me on that)<BR/><BR/>"The case has raised talk of legislation against Internet harassment." It's not harassment. It's speech, it's acting in the dramatic mode and it's television.*****https://www.blogger.com/profile/08380551822903169304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830896519376752795.post-64030608093941735972008-11-22T11:02:00.000-05:002008-11-22T11:02:00.000-05:00Jeri,I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going...Jeri,<BR/>I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to think carefully about how to answer you. I'll post my answer by Friday of next week. You can put that on your calendar.*****https://www.blogger.com/profile/08380551822903169304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830896519376752795.post-63679957388379526992008-11-21T21:25:00.000-05:002008-11-21T21:25:00.000-05:00Pardon me, but, h ow exactly did myspace violate t...Pardon me, but, h ow exactly did myspace violate this woman's rights? I understand the need to protect your child as I have two. Sometimes you have to let them fight their own fights and work it out. This woman chose to involve herself into something that was clearly none of her business. Living vicariously through the eyes of a 13 yr old child, at the age of 49, speaks volumes. She is lonely and needs some help. While I agree Megan Meier made the decision to commit suicide, I still feel terrible for her parents. Were it to be my daughter, I don't know how to put this in a civil manner, I would be on trial for murder...I'll leave it at that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11870401790054315440noreply@blogger.com