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Youth online risk: Accurate reporting
02-Sep-10Another adult cyberbullying case in MO
18-Aug-09A 40-year-old Missouri woman has been charged with felony cyberbullying for posting the photo and contact info of a 17-year-old girl in the “Casual Encounters” section of Craigslist, according to a report at CBSNEWS.com. Prosecutors said the posting, allegedly made by Elizabeth Thrasher of St. Peters in the St. Louis area, “suggested the girl was [...]
In a second ruling in the Megan Meier cyberbullying case, a federal judge yesterday threw out Lori Drew’s three misdemeanor convictions of late last year, the Wired “Threat Level” blog reports. “The case against Drew hinged on the government’s novel argument that violating MySpace’s terms of service was the legal equivalent of computer hacking.” US [...]
Missouri’s new cyberharassment law
27-Dec-08Seven people have been prosecuted under Missouri’s new online-harassment law, passed after 13-year-old Megan Meier committed suicide as a result of cyberbullying in 2006. “When a press report in 2007 revealed the role that 47-year-old Lori Drew played in Meier’s harassment, local authorities felt pressured to charge Drew with a crime, but could find no [...]
Anti-cyberbullying teachable moment
12-Dec-08There has been a lot of news coverage about the legal issues surrounding the Megan Meier case, but not many useful takeaways for parents and kids. Here are some great talking points for family discussion from Nancy Willard, author of Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens and director of the Center for Safe & Responsible Internet Use…. [...]
Questions raised by Megan Meier case
02-Dec-08Although Lori Drew was convicted only on misdemeanor charges last week and though the case may yet be dismissed, the questions it raises are important ones: Legal Although what happened between the Meiers and Drews in the St. Louis area in 2006 was about cyberbullying, the case against Drew wasn’t, actually. It was about computer [...]
Verdict in Megan Meier case
26-Nov-08In the cyberbullying case against Lori Drew, the Missouri mother involved in the creation of a fake MySpace profile that led to Megan Meier’s suicide, “a federal jury delivered a mixed verdict,” the Los Angeles Times reports. She was convicted of misdemeanor charges involving unlawful computer access, but the jury “rejected more serious felony charges.” [...]
Troll exploits: Critical thinking needed
08-Aug-08There are two kinds of troll victims, actually: those who are directly and cruelly tormented by trolls and those who are manipulated into contributing to the attacks. That’s one of my takeaways from an insightful New York Times Magazine article about people who use the Internet to attack, in depraved ways, other people who are [...]
Dismissal urged in Megan Meier case
06-Aug-08Twelve law professors and several Internet civil liberties organizations say that a conviction in the federal case against Lori Drew in the suicide of Megan Meier would have the effect of “criminalizing the everyday conduct of millions of internet users.” An amicus brief submitted for the group concluded: “Megan Meier’s death was a terrible tragedy, [...]
This deserves notice: “What we need in response to this and other equally alarming cases is a new culture of responsibility where government, industry, schools, parents and the kids themselves share differing and overlapping responsibilities for what happens online so that Megan’s untimely death is not repeated, nor the emergence of a cyber lynch mob [...]
