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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.
"I respectfully submit that the defendant is a Meanie-Head in the first degree!"
"My client wishes the court to know that the witness, in fact, 'started it'."
Such stuff needs to be a felony.
In which case, the state of Texas is going to be busy with all of the anonymous vs. anonymous cases.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Can of worms, I dub thee COLOSUS!
If I post online that Cmdr Taco is a goat fucker, have I really "harmed" him or his reputation in any way? It's not slander unless a reasonable person would believe it to be true, and no rational person believes Taco actually dates outside his own species (unlike Captain Kirk).
Yet another reason that Captain Picard is the superior Captain compared to Captain Kirk, Goat Fucker.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
Yes, I know. Which makes it even more amusing when it's used by Texans in a different way.
See, humor and sarcasm have many layers....
Most of which you seem unable to penetrate.
Meh! Kirk has a goat in every port. Who does Picard have to come home to?
An acting career?
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Spoon, There Is Only Zuul. Everything in the above post is probably opinion.