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Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins
An anonymous reader writes "The cyber-bullying trial of Lori Drew opened yesterday. She was indicted for conspiring to access and accessing MySpace illegally in order to 'further a tortious act, namely, intentional infliction of emotional distress' (PDF of the indictment). The BBC has background on the case, the NYTimes covers the opening statements, and Wired has today's testimony."
People like the girl's parents are worthless imo They knew her daughter had severe problems and were doing next to nothing about them.
Girl got trolled to death, how the fuck didn't anyone notice she was THAT fucked up sooner?
Funny? Really now? This is when we need sane people with modpoints.
Are you loopy?
"In this case, it's a good thing, since this person, for no other reason than malice, emotionally abused someone just for the "fun" of it."
Lori Drew created the account to spy on the girl because the girl was harrassing her daughter. Another teenager who was in on the spy was the one who wrote the statement that ultimately led to the girl committing suicide. There was a reason, she was concerned about her own daughter!
Now what she did probably wasn't right, but I can see other parents doing the exact same thing Lori did, and probably have. It just so happens that the girl that committed suicide was an emotional wreck and it backfired all over on Lori.
Now Lori Drew is the victim of vigilantism from America, because most Americans and many on /. also are TOO ignorant to actually find facts before basing opinions. Yeah great, persecute a woman who was actually concerned about her daughter, and give the parents of the girl who committed suicide a free ride, even though they were the ones not concerned enough about their daughter to see the signs before she offed herself.
Of course laws get used in new circumstances, but you don't just make shit up because you are morally offended by something...
On the plus side you'll be the first against the wall once the obvious outcome of trolling being a capital offense results. Silver linings and all that.