Answer for: Cyber-bully laws -- should we go to jail for online name-calling?
#1 It IS an over-reaction.
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The girl this case is based on was 13. What about the accountability on her parents part, for letting her be on the computer so much? And... what was her household like?
Essentially this bill/law is telling me if I criticize someone on line too much I could go to jail for it.
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The main problem with this kind of legislation is that, once on the books, it's available for any busybody prosecutor to go after otherwise harmless online activity. Even if the activity has nothing to do with the original intent of the legislation. Bad, bad, bad.
I agree absolutely. It gives the State the right to police and monitor all of us. Not surprising really. Do you not think it was inevitable that the internet would frighten the State silly? No established power gives it up easily. The internet allows instant communication between people the State fears, and rightly. Revolutionaries/anarchists/terrorists and all the other labels the State uses to denigrate opposition are chatting merrily away and the State knows it. The State thinks It is fine when big business uses the net - that is part of the system of control, but when ordinary people use it, then they have to be bullied into limited behaviours so the the State is not threatened.
HOWEVER, for once, I think the State is on a loser. The genie is out of the bottle and it is never going back in again. Good.