Damn, the most reasonable response I've heard so far.
On Dec 2, 2008, at 12:04 AM, db wrote:
Yes, and a good thing too that it was determined to be a crime.
Just because the internet is a new frontier does not mean crime and
injustice isn't perpetrated by its use.
To the contrary. The internet is just a new medium for human beings
to use for age old purposes (information, communication, business
etc.) and sometimes unfortunately in age old abusive or unfair ways
(persecution, fraud, theft, ..)
Basic tenet of most all law. One's rights only extend as far as
they don't deprive someone else of their (more fundamental) rights.
In this case, that adult mother needs to be policed for the undue,
adverse and irresponsible affect she had on that minor through means
of identity disguise.
The Internet needs fair impartial regulation and enforcement like
any other human affairs. No regulation or enforcement of power =
inevitable runaway abuse of power.... as Wallstreet showed us all
recently.
Recent GGUYS example: While it may seem that peer to peer sharing
of pirated movies is a victim-less win-win free Xmas gift type of
thing, it isn't if you look more deeply at the situation. Not only
are the artists defrauded of their means of income but fellow users
of broadband often can't reasonably access the service they paid for
for email and browsing purposes because the movie down loaders
figured out a new way to hog the vast majority of available
bandwidth with bit torrent software designed and set with aggressive
functional parameters.
Just because the Internet is new doesn't make it immune or
impervious to human crimes and self-serving abuses.
Anybody that thinks we have invented something "people proof" and
"divined from the gods" in the internet has been "drinking the cool
aid."
But more importantly... the nature of laws and regulation is that
they don't just spring into existence whole and perfect. They are
developed incrementally via trial and error. The US Constitution
was a new take in a new land using the best of what had come from
hundreds of years of developments like "the Reformation, Age of
Reason, Rights of Man, French Resolution etc.
Hey... we're just getting started here with the new land of the
internet! Patience is a virtue, right?
Sorry for "running on and on" ... I couldn't help myself...
db
Matthew Taylor wrote:
Lying on line *with malicious intent to inflict harm via fraudulent
means* with resultant actual harm inflicted is not a thought
crime. It is, and a jury agreed, an actual crime.
Matthew
On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Wow, this even tops the DMCA's thought crimes...
MySpace ruling could lead to jail for lying online
"Web site terms of service, which end users universally ignore,
suddenly
have teeth: violating them is a federal hacking offense,
punishable with
jail time. The days of being able to freely lie on the Web could be
coming to an end. This could mean serious trouble for people who lie
about their age, weight, or marital status in their online dating
profiles."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10110069-46.html
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