Comments on: WARNING: Cyberbullies will be prosecuted

By: AlexM

AlexM — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:43:36 +0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

By: Bettie

Bettie — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:02:27 +0000

Megan needs more justice

By: jash

jash — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:21:34 +0000

I think the LA opinion is making a stretch from creating and using false information that ended in a death (intent to harm probably) to the end of anonymity on the interwebs.

Age does not define maturity… I believe certain older children should be denied certain rights (as according to their behavioral age) to prevent this kind of stupid crap from happening.

By: Yoda808

Yoda808 — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:06:42 +0000

Love it or hate it and like it or not, Myspace and all these new types of social networking sites are the new reality. I’m not saying meeting people in person is bad or has no place anymore, it’s just that for young people that is their environment.

By: naminori

naminori — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:25:25 +0000

Andrew:
May 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am

You might want to, y’know, actually read up on how her parents treated her and the kind of rules and supervision they subjected her internet use to, because you couldn’t be more wrong.

Megan was taking anti-psychotic medication for depression and was obviously walking around unsupervised by her parents. You just don’t dope up your kid with anti-psychotic medication and not monitor your kid for side effects from the drugs.

By: MoOgooGuypAN

MoOgooGuypAN — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:31:41 +0000

I got the best idea. Pull the plug on Myspace. Make people meet each other the ol fashion way, in person.

By: just an opinion

just an opinion — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:15:52 +0000

if you all read more carefully, the mom is not charged with causing megan’s death. she is charged with conspiracy and fraud. this is important to remember because there is no nexus between megan’s death and what this lady and her daughter did, according to the prosecution.

the internet website companies need to be held to some accountability as well as the users and megan’s parents. the companies always hide behind the first amendment, but free speech can’t lead to someone getting hurt or abused in any way. companies like myspace and facebook need to filter all this cyberbullying and hate-email stuff out. how? i don’t know. but i bet some tech-geek out there can figure it out and patent the software and make buku bucks off it.

change will only come by the users of the internet. something that was once deemed lawless (the internet) is now being policed more and more by the authority, companies, and users. that’s how it should be.

By: frankie

frankie — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:13:58 +0000

I think people are looking at this through the wrong-colored glasses. The fact is that everyone wants someone to pay for the death of a young child. This has less to do with online restrictions/policy/privacy/violations and more to do with the fact that a mother helped her child have access in harrassing another child that influenced her to commit suicide. Whether she gave her access to a Myspace account, paid for her cellphone with the intent to send text messages to Megan or gave her stamps to send letters, she participated in the death of this child. They’re going to charge her with whatever they can come up with, and that is fine with me.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:54:29 +0000

Don’t believe everything you read and only half of what you see and Do not take the internet too seriously

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:45:21 +0000

To me Megan’s parents are also responsible for her death. First of all they did not provide supervision for the girl when she surfed the net. Second, how long was it going to take for them to notice that their kid own was in emotional distress? It’s pretty obvious Megan’s parents neglected her, which is also probably why Megan was successful in hanging herself in her own house. They most likely did not bother to look for Megan until the very end.

You might want to, y’know, actually read up on how her parents treated her and the kind of rules and supervision they subjected her internet use to, because you couldn’t be more wrong.

I’m perfectly fine with the Justice Department electing to use minor ToS violations as a basis for determining guilt and punishment, the same way I’m perfectly fine with cops giving jaywalkers tickets. Just because you don’t usually get caught/punished doesn’t mean it ain’t against the rules.