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Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law
SpaceGhost sends in a story from San Antonio, TX: "Police have arrested a 16-year-old girl on charges of harassment under a new Texas law that took effect September 1, 2009. H.B. 2003 says a person commits a third degree felony if the person posts one or more messages on a social networking site with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten another person. Police say the harassment went on for a few months and involved a dispute over a boy. ... Some people expect legal challenges to the constitutionality of the new Internet law.' The law is evidently a response to the Lori Drew case.
fuck off. Kids fight. Ever watched kittens or puppies ? they fight all the time. It's part of growing up. Except nobody goes through it these days, they call the police in instead, and consequently never GROW UP ! I really cannot get my head round kids complaining because somebody called them names. You may have noticed that this phenomenon is increasing not decreasing since corporal punishment was outlawed. Sometimes you need the fear of Dog put in you to teach you a lesson. Kids these days aren't getting that lesson. What kind of adults are they going to be ? Whiny self-important over litigious assholes, that's who.
Society was a lot better off when simple ego conflicts were settled privately. Now we all have to abide by stupid laws thanks to weeners who can't or won't stand up for themselves. And when they're forced to act by circumstance, they have no sense of proportion and resort to guns and knives. It never used to be like that, so what's changed ? Human nature or interfering lawmakers doing it "for the children". I know several teens who really need a good slap to wipe the smile off their smirking idle, ignorant faces, but I can't give it to them, and nobody in authority will. So I just hope something really nasty happens to them instead. And I know it will because I'm one of the nice guys. I choose to control myself, others aren't so restrained.