Thief13x on 4/12/2007 at 02:57
13 yr old girl hangs herself after being called names on myspace(
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/03/internet.suicide/index.html)
jesus christ, i mean seriously, they didn't even mention if the girl mental issues, so I'm assuming she didn't. It's just so sad, what the hell could you do to stop this anyways?
Stitch on 4/12/2007 at 03:04
To stop myspace users from dying? I don't understand.
Scots Taffer on 4/12/2007 at 03:14
im soooo sorry
Pyrian on 4/12/2007 at 03:30
In the end, I'm glad they're not prosecuting. If insulting people on the internet were criminal, most of this forum would have to be hauled off in chains.
Fringe on 4/12/2007 at 03:36
Quote Posted by Thief13x
what the hell could you do to stop this anyways?
Are you even familiar with this story? A good way to stop it from happening would be to not have adults (
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009605.html#009605) impersonate a friend, lie, and deliberately hound a depressed teenager into killing herself. How's that for a start?
Pyrian on 4/12/2007 at 04:52
Quote Posted by Fringe
How's that for a start?
As a start, it's absolutely miserably useless. How exactly are you planning on accomplishing the feat of getting people not to pretend to be different and/or flame people on the internet?
SubJeff on 4/12/2007 at 05:38
Come now, anyone who kills themselves over a flame on the internet has more problems than being the butt of an internet flame ffs.
demagogue on 4/12/2007 at 06:13
Quote Posted by Pyrian
In the end, I'm glad they're not prosecuting. If insulting people on the internet were criminal, most of this forum would have to be hauled off in chains.
They didn't prosecute because there wasn't a law on the books violated. But because of this case the legislature of that state is passing a law to make it a crime ... I don't know if it's a good law or not, depends on the language, but probably more potential for bad than good.
Vasquez on 4/12/2007 at 06:16
Yeah, it would be great to lay all the blame on internet people, but in cases like this, there are always some very serious troubles already existing.
And there's always a choice - if you don't like the community/clan/posse/friendship/whatever, you can leave. In fact, it's much easier in the internet than real life.
(Besides, if there's gonna be finger-pointing, it seems that her mom had at least as much to do with it.)
aguywhoplaysthief on 4/12/2007 at 08:45
Quote Posted by Stitch
To stop myspace users from dying? I don't understand.
How was this not the end of the thread?
