Who am I, or better yet, who are WE? I have been accused of being quite a few people, most recently a “Karrie” because I expressed an opinion that I believe Sydney, the alleged attorney, is a fake. Well I hate to disappoint your constantly stomping feet HOPE and Rosemary, but I am someone who is starting to receive some very interesting stuff on you, BOTH OF YOU, from a variety of sources. But let’s leave this at Rosemary, for now, because I believe she is the more pressing problem. Meloney/Hope/Sydney, they already did a blog on you, so go pout somewhere else, your 15 minutes are done honeybabysweetikins. And no more comments defending yourself because they will be automatically deleted. Your time is done on this blog and you will receive NO MORE ATTENTION.
End of YOU.
Now, back to Rosemary.
You are almost being eaten alive, Rosemary, trying to figure out who is behind the “ratting you out”, as you put it. People have been telling me and showing me IMS and logs that show you are about to shit yourself with fury about the people that are giving up the info about you. You have NO IDEA who is giving you up, who is emailing me logs, IMs, emails and pics. You have pissed off and backstabbed enough people; the crowd could fill a few hundred football stadiums, so you have a HUGE list to go through sugarpie. I know you aren’t the brightest thing around and a few chicken nuggets short of a happy meal soooo let me give you some badly needed help because your tiny miniscule brain is in desperate need of it, since it doesn’t revolve around sex and that leaves you CLUELESS!!!
You have been at this for a LONG time, 10+ years, so let’s play “WHO IS GIVING UP ROSEMARY”.
Is it:
Bambi? Hoistapint? Hooters? Frost? Shirley? Kevin? Barbie? Kirk? Jackie? Eileen? Joey? Alan? Ian? Nelson? Robin? Reanne? Reslend? Simone? Bruce? Hannah? Sir Bubba? FyrBall? Firedar? Stacy? Drew? Lauri? Vanlla? ProzacGoddess? JohnWilson? UpstateNYEMT? Sparky?
Snerthunter? Geo? Eve? Lily? MDCop? JailCopJerry? Mark Dawg? Lynnzy? BigSteveNJ? MzBigEvil? Cyndi? Lolita? Cari? Nanci? Bob? SydneyzBabe? Meloney Hope? Zeeke? Blogsucka? Nicole? Runt Joey? Cris Blaznnn? Ann ATexas1096? Bobby? Dee? Robert? Gene Torvie? Dave EMS4968? JerryEatzDonuts? Annie? SydneyEsq2006? Jawswatman? Dan? Walter? Chase? Jenn? IrishRescueChik? Toadman? RayJohnson? CrashTestedDummi? DealiciousOne? SMELLMYFINGERS? SheDevil? Jude? Hunter? Amidala? HarrisHawk? DODSGT? ShortNSassy? AmericanETwins? Elleslaw? Coffey? Sarah? CuffsnLace? Michelle? FicticiousSN? Empire? MizaCongeniality? Lou? Tom? James? AndSoo? LicksBugs? Tammi? FDNYNiceGuy? BlondeBuzzz? Johnnie? IM2Feisty4U? XOMAILE? Squadbunny? Whitney? PunkinPie? Lushpuppy? AzBastistaBabe? LuvnAManWithAGun? DDawny? Need4Speed? OneSwtKookie? OnlyCandi inTX? CSICrimegirlie? Gloria? BillyBingo? FireChick0004? SexyBrown4u? Jaysportman? MedicTroll? LuLu? Jason? Barb? Focke? Mike? Mel? QueenGSA? NYLadiDee? SmokeJumper? SMOKEEATER? Mystik? Rosehill? Karrie? Nooshka? Scott BusRadio? MCJazz? TizerLily? CWFFRYCOOK? DragonWhisperer? Tony? Rich? Mack? Carol? Cadoo? Ricki? Lou? Nikki? MysticGulfChic? Dale? Lotus? GhetoCop? CWFGoddess? LongrthnAvg? IcePrincess? DareToBeWild? IAFF92? LongerRanger? StillRebel? CherylRavensFan? ChatRoomGossip? NascarMom? LadyNBlkLace? TaltheGalfrSocal? WickldlyDlicious? Packerbabe? FDRichie? SophiaDollares? TheMySpaceGuy? Santa?
Yeah, that’s quite a long list isn’t it hosemary? Who could it be? After all you’ve done for them and to them huh. Buncha ungrateful hicks aren’t they hosehead. BUT…. I didn’t say it was all of them, most of them or any of them.
The fact remains YOU DON’T KNOW WHO IS GIVING YOU UP.
But I do…. And what is out there right now about you is only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
Tick tock hosemary tick tock….your time is almost up. Hope your day sucks as much as possible. Oh, almost forgot, all your old info giving up roomies send a very deep satisfying FUCK YOU Rose.
Hugs & kisses,
Your old roomie,
“2002”
p.s. Oh, one more thing. To the person who contacted and asked me to leave a message, yes I would love to see what you have on Rose and her “titty suckers”. Please send the “way to contact you” that you were talking about to my email address january20094u@yahoo.com.
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- Old Roomie Jan 2002
- I am Exposing Rose Hirst Blankenship and all fakes for what they are: a bullies, internet stalkers and all around nasty whores and pricks. This blog shows a scheming conniving low life ugly smelly bucky beaver toothed black widow male killing whore and her buddy fakes as they really are. This also includes Robert "Fatboy" Casey and fake Sydney H. Smith so-called attorney who is fake. I am someone who's known Rose and these losers a LONG time and plan on helping those victimized by them in any way possible, allowed by law. "I didn't hit you Rose I was merely high-fiving your face you stupid twit..." "Rose is the epitome of social services white trash..." "Hmmmm let me think Rose.... nope still don't give a damn..."
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Adult Cyber Bullying- Should laws protecting children also be applied toward the safety of Adults?
Part I
Below you will find a partial transcript from a chat room session beginning approximately 2:15am central standard time, December 22, 2007 on AOL's People Connection Created Chat Room LIFE/Over Forty. AOL archives all chat logs but does not make them available to the general public without due process, specifically; a subpoena, however, they are available nonetheless.
This chat room log is very disturbing. It is evidence of a woman who is very angry, manic and focused on her attack. This is an actual event so please be aware of this fact as you read below.
As you read this chat room log, please be aware that cyber-bullying does take place with grown adults as much if not more than it does with children. Many of the attacks launched on others are brutal in many ways and have proven fatal in some cases. This assertion requires more investigation from me and evidence of same at this time. However, having been a participant in the chat room scene, I personally have witnessed, have been and I am a victim of the same kind of threats and abuses on a regular ongoing basis, therefore I can and do attest to the harshness and seriousness of this wide spread and increasingly dangerous problem of online life.
The measures in place by ISP's that host and/or provide as a perk or amenity to their software package, such chat room venues are inadequate at best. The host provider of such venues will have in place, measures or "Terms of Service" (TOS) agreements outlining proper protocol and/or behavior specifically required in order to maintain an account with such a provider. However, failing compliance with such TOS rules and regulations, the remedies for breach of TOS agreements are completely inadequate at best and have many "HOLES" that allow perpetrators back in to the very chat room that the offense took place only to pickup where they left off with a stronger anger and vengeance upon their return toward those deemed (rightfully or wrongfully) responsible for turning them in to get them TOS'ed.
Are there laws protecting people in chat rooms? IF so, where does an ADULT turn for help? Does anyone know? Who is culpable? Does anyone hold or have a duty to claim responsibility for abuses taking place in such online forums? There are more questions than there are answers. BUT THE QUESTIONS need to be asked.
Abuse is abuse no matter where it is committed. Verbal abuse is one of the most under reported, under treated and most heinous abuses of all because of the deep emotional and mental scarring it causes cannot be seen or felt by others thereby is subjective in nature. ITS results are manifested and are evidenced by many social ills. The WRITTEN ABUSE as found online or in cyber space is no different than abuse anywhere else. In fact, it can be worse.
How serious does it get? Are there reported fatalities resulting from chat room activity, banter and/or interaction. Yes, I have knowledge of deaths resulting from "something" that either began or happened in a chat room.
When this happens, who is responsible? Are the ISP HOSTS of such chat rooms culpable at all? Where does one go to find help?
In this series I hope to explore all aspects of online cyber bullying and the various shoot-off abuses of same as well as the actual environment these abuses thrive in. IT IS MY greatest desire to bring public awareness to these very abuses, as in the brutality that goes unhindered inside a chat room of GROWN adults: Adults who have the resource to make good on a promise to kick someone's azz that lives six states away from him. The Adult who has the knowledge to finesse and manipulate in-place mechanisms meant to protect members and remedy issues as they arise.
Just as we answer one question, be sure another will arise. Please come along with me as I take you on a ride that may make you angry, cry, sad and ready to blame me for. Again, the best way is to begin at the beginning and the chat log below is a partial log but one that speaks for itself as you will see as you read it.
Thank you for your interest and happy reading ...
The Chat Log:
Zillabea: your the punchboard and the joke Of the Internet people laugh at your Stupid ramblings on your Multiple sites preaching love and light with spaceships floating around. while you send hate and death letters to people in this room
PamiSu392: she see's UFOs ??
Zillabea: youre a phony hypocrite with Nothing but your old worn out darkened light pics of yourself in a Bikini cuz looks dont matter you say but you had to show 80 pics of yourSelf have dressed and in a bed sheet. yeah youre real credible.
Zillabea: take your Meds
Zillabea: pami type in galaxyline617 on google. youll see
Zillabea: and it aint illegal lady you plastered yourself all over the Internet you are such a Fool
Zillabea: if you dont want people readin your junk dont post it . gee that doesnt take a genius to figure out
Zillabea: and it IS junk
Zillabea: because galaxy you do not practice One single thing that you constantly PREACH to Others
Headsclutrd: I gotta figure out how to care this much....Im sure it would bother me if I cared
Zillabea: are we clear
Zillabea: good.
Zillabea: ~
PamiSu392: hahaha Heads
Zillabea: Heads shes a freak. no more no less
Zillabea: lots of them on the Internet. they stick together
Zillabea: water seeks its own level
Headsclutrd: then again Ive never tried to discourage women from posting scantilly clad pictures of themselves
PamiSu392: LOL
Zillabea: wabs is in bed and caveman must be too Mary also so Gals kind of all alone right now. usually she has several other Bullys screeching at people with h4er
Zillabea: Head its just Cheap
Zillabea: and Desperate
Zillabea: all three of them did it. dans mary and gal
Zillabea: geee the common denominator .. no class
Zillabea: desperation
PamiSu392: ok i'm going in search of breakfast... play nice
Chaos196: wow what was that noise ? sounded kinda like some white trash slobs butt puckering up
Zillabea: nite pami:)
Zillabea: LOL chaos
Zillabea: enlightening chaos thank you
Zillabea: try findin me genius. you cant even find reality. but spell my name right ok Gal.. its Carroll M Edwin:) got it?
Zillabea: lol
Zillabea: do you really think i would stupid enough to use my real name in this forum.
Zillabea: lol
Chaos196: oh well just screen names here, there's no real people behind them, we can say anything we want, galaxy said so last night, if it's funny to teen it's prefectly alright, after all she owns this room, just ask her
Zillabea: Chaos shes jumped the shark. even her own people are embarassed by her Stupid remarks
Chaos196: zilla can't say i blame them
Roseann2530: Zill............ignore it
Zillabea: she cmes in here blows alotta hot air threatens people acts like shes in charge of the Internet. its hard to watch i call her Brittany ;)
Chaos196: hi rose
Roseann2530: Hiya Chaos
Chaos196: hello
Zillabea: Rose .. i usually do i put her on ignore. she has 4 other bully pals.. youll see them Caveman Wabt Mary and Sam
Chaos196: how you doon ?
Zillabea: all bullys. all pathetic
Roseann2530: true but ignore it
Chaos196: all the bullies i've met in my life are really ignorant
Headsclutrd: I feel like Im anxiously anticipating daylight..yet I have absolutely nothing planned for the day
Zillabea: sandra is a 50 year old very emotionally fragile woman living on welfare in an expando trailer. who absolutely LIVES for the Internet and this room it is her life...
Chaos196: heads could always go play golf
Zillabea: and that is plain to see by the amazing number of blogs forums and websites she has decicated to her insanity. one has a dam flying saucer with Music lmao
Headsclutrd: true..never played it before..
Zillabea: then if someone Sees her websites she calls them stalkers lol
Chaos196: golf is really a lotta fun
Roseann2530: where you live Heads?
Zillabea: shes such a fool
Chaos196: i used to play when i was a kid
Zillabea: i see she finally shuttup:)
Headsclutrd: Adlanna metro area..in jawja
Zillabea: yooo whoo Sandraaaa i didnt get TERMED arnt ya embarassed now:) keep logging galaxy lol
Chaos196: zilla she's running to tos to cry and whine
LINBRQQK75: ty Z for getting her to shut up
Zillabea: stupid broad
Zillabea: chaos. i know shes such a follower
Zillabea: doesnt matter she cant do a thing. she has NO power
Zillabea: i know something about her that she doesnt think i no:)
Zillabea: matter of time
Chaos196: yup zilla obvious by how she smooches up to teen, the lowest common denominator on aol
Zillabea: your welcome LIN
Headsclutrd: listen...do ya want to know a secret..
Chaos196: sure
Zillabea: shes a suckup chaos.. Teen absolutely verbally attempts to obliterate people he is atrocious and she laps it up . makes you wanna vomit a woman with no self esteem haning with Trash like teen
Roseann2530: was asking so I could know the weather.....beach or movies
Zillabea: she crossed the line with me.
Zillabea: that aint good
Chaos196: zilla well put
Galaxyline6l7: shutting UP lmaoooo
Galaxyline6l7: LOLLOL Keeping you going is easy to do
Galaxyline6l7: please continue
Roseann2530: Hi Drunkin
Zillabea: im easy goin:) i love to laugh but you know when i get mad which is seldom i do something about it
Galaxyline6l7: melting down has never been so real
Galaxyline6l7: ty
Headsclutrd: no beach..movies not really my bag...Ive almost semi-mastered the unicycle..
Zillabea: fu*k off galaxyline (line fixed and asterisk placed in the position of the “C” --- actual word typed into the chat room)
Zillabea: :)
Zillabea: youre just a nother garden variety NUT
Chaos196: snot nosed jerks come here talking smack and trying to act all bad then run to tattle to tos
Roseann2530: cool,Heads
Zillabea: chaos.. takes 4 or 5 of um to harass one person
Zillabea: lol
Zillabea: she thinks shes cool hanging with Teen and mary and that Rude Sam
LINBRQQK75: gaga is worried now...as she should be
Zillabea: they hav no idea how bad they really look
Drunkincarpets: hello rose
Zillabea: LIN she should be trust me
LINBRQQK75: i know
Roseann2530: where in NJ?
Zillabea: ive called .. several people about the harassment of late
Chaos196: yup zilla, takes that many to combine their vocabulary to come up with anything that would equal a 5 year old
Zillabea: and sent the logs
Zillabea: enough.
Drunkincarpets: carteret
Roseann2530: near Edison?
Zillabea: it will be interestng to see if Fishead goes when Galaxy does
Zillabea: ::smile
Drunkincarpets: not to far from there
Chaos196: you think she puts lipstick on that sphincter on the front of her face ?
Zillabea: anyway Sandra to make a long story short.. the next time you get so excited , you almost we your pants.. laughing at me and saying Ive been Termed and YOU termed me.. ya better make sure i really am Termed:) cuzz obviously Im Not:)
Zillabea: LOLOLOLOL
Zillabea: i rest my case
Zillabea: {S ilikeher
Zillabea: :) see ya
Chaos196: maybe her 'God' idle will come back to rescue her with his 75 word vocabulary
Headsclutrd: guess I could do some laundry...clean my room...might waste a nun..so many things to choose from
Chaos196: and that's being generous
Chaos196: yeah heads i got bored and did my laundry earlier, fun
Headsclutrd: ladies...germs....this stuff is supposed to be fun...perhaps we can try a lil harder next time...ciao
Chaos196: later heads
This log is pertinent because it contains an element of many abuses and TERMS of SERVICE (TOS) violations at least once if not more throughout the log. Cursing, threatening, harassing, stalking, and defamation are all prevalent elements in that log. This log is representative of the normal course of chatting in a chat room and it exposes the normal mode of behavior by those who wish to have power and control over such venues and people who frequent such venues.
How much can a person take of this type of banter and diatribe before it takes a toll? A critical thinker would ask why would a person continue going to such a chat room and submit to that kind of verbal beating day after day. IT is a valid question and I propose that the reasons any person goes back to such a place and takes such abuse day after day has a psychology all its own. However, in most cases one might assume, the chat room cyber-bullied victim usually has a following of acquaintances in a particular chat room that they go to converse and interact with day after day. Additionally, a victim may refuse to give in to being abused and going back is their way of fighting said abuse. THE answers are anyone’s guess and I do not think that the focus should be placed on the victim in any way whatsoever. By placing blame on the victim, the bullying does not get addressed and/or remedied. This fact alone warrants attention be placed on the bullies and not the victims.
When reading this chat log among many others, what keeps coming to my mind is how a bar or a club that serves alcoholic beverages, in many States are held culpable and responsible if a person is served too many alcoholic drinks in their bar and/or establishment, then proceeds to drive and have an accident and or have any other incidents attributed to the drunkenness achieved in their establishment. What makes a host of any ISP, such as AOL, or MySpace or Yahoo or any other HOST for sights that allow communal online communications, socializing or gathering any less culpable? Do these very Online Entities have absolutely no responsibility regarding events like this one?
My answer to this question is YES! Yes AOL, MYSPACE, and YAHOO as well as any other HOST to public online meeting places, all have not only a responsibility but a duty to police the chat rooms or any socializing venues they OFFER to the public in general, in a fair and democratic manner with justice for all. THEY are culpable in part. They are responsible in part. They should be held to task as well as any member or person frequenting these venues. Accountability is absolutely necessary in and should be a mandatory priority to online safety for us all.
In Part II of this series we will review and examine the death of a young beautiful child resulting from the cyber-bullying of a Grown Woman and two accomplices via the MYSPACE site. This case in itself is ominous and foretells a trend if something is not done to stop this horrible act of cruelty.
Adult Cyber Bullying- Should laws protecting children also be applied toward the safety of Adults?
Part II
Presented to you here and now is an extreme case of cyber-bullying of the worst possible level. NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED!
Does this child mean nothing? DID HER LIFE mean nothing? NO ONE Is CULPABLE!? According to existing laws Megan Meier, her life, parents, siblings, loved ones and neighbors mean nothing.
Main Entry: cul-pa -ble
Pronunciation
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English coupable, from Anglo-French cupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare to blame, from
culpa guilt
Date:14th century
1 archaic : GUILTY, CRIMINAL
2 : meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful *culpable negligence*
synonyms see BLAMEWORTHY
In the case of Megan Meier Cyber-bullying, Death, Dying, and Dead are facts. A little girl is dead because of the ONLINE conduct of a GROWN WOMAN! An adult! AND nothing can be done about it?
She is dead. Too bad. So sad. "...ummm, now what was I doing?” Let us all get back to what we were doing as if it never happened…, after all it is cyber space and not real right? Do we have an unconcerned attitude about this incident and others like it? Does it have to happen to us up close and personal before we become pro-active in combating such atrocities?
As iterated in Part I of this series, if an individual was so inclined as to actually subpoena AOL archives of all chat logs they would notice that in episodes of cyber GANG bullying is rampant and unchecked. The Cyber Bully counts on this silence to gain power over a person or venue. In so reading a chat log, one cannot help but notice that only a select few are typing and posting to the room. Most everyone else in attendance fell silent and the posting by most of the others in attendance in that chat room stopped except by the ACTUAL bullies. Now if an individual is bombarded with these types of abuses over and over for days, weeks, months and years what effect does it have on that person?
In the Case of Megan Meier, death was the effect and death resulted. I think this proves my case. Megan Meier was a childand if you followed the story link provided, I am sure it elicited many emotions in the reader both pro and con regarding CHARGING, or lack thereof, the woman involved in this horrible event that lead to Megan’s death.
This case of Megan Meier is so outrageous, blatantly and egregiously wrong that I am sure certain legislative powers that be will submit bill to Congress mandating law and punishment of such crimes will be forthcoming. HOWEVER, a critical thinker would be aware that pending such legislation(s), the whole premise of a FREE INTERNET becomes severely compromised and may fall into being regulated by the Government because of such unaccountability, lack of culpability and abuse by users of theInternet and the HOSTS of various venues whose failure in properly policing their venues could actually result in death. THIS threat is real. We all pay for the crimes or abuse of a few and the total disregard SITE HOSTS for the safety and well being of their members while using the chat rooms or other such socializing venues.
A little girl is dead because of online conduct in which NO ONE was found to be culpable. HOW HORRIBLY SAD! I cannot wrap my mind and heart around this horrible tragedy and how it could have ever happened in the first place!
The atrocity of a grown adult using her advanced years of experience and knowledge over an inexperienced little girl is outrageous, yet unchecked and not punishable by existing laws ONLY BECAUSE IT HAPPENED IN CYBER SPACE! How would this case be different if it had happened in real life? All we can really do is speculate, but I suggest and suggest strongly that this could NOT have happened in real life because a real JOSH would have been needed in order for the deception to have taken place over little Megan Meier.
Upon the death of in tribute to Megan Meier, many online sites began popping up by concerned citizens which were meant to be helpful in combating cyber crimes of a "bullying" nature. But all these sites do is give an individual the same advice given by most hosts of such forums in which these very abuses take place. However, in defense of the sites, clear and definite definitions are provided regarding many elements of venues of abuse perpetrated online.
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org Gives us the following is a definition of cyber-bullying:
"Cyber-bullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyber-stalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyber-stalking is NEVER called cyber-bullying.”
I agree we must protect our children at all costs. That is a given. The Case of Megan Meier is proof of this fact. BUT AN ADULT committed the atrocious act leading to the death of this child. But shouldn’t these definitions also be applied toward helping adults in defining online abuses and cyber-bullying and offer the same immediate remedies for violations therein.
Cyber-Harassment and Cyber-Stalking are terms applied to adult online misbehavior, and have no laws that offer immediate protection by law enforcement officials or offices whereas, the cyber-bullying laws applied to children are immediate. Additionally, the “long arm of the law” is slow for the applicable laws regarding the Cyber-Stalking/Harassment definitions that are commonly applied toward adult against adult behavior online or in cyber space per se.
We need help here and fast before someone else thinks it is okay to act this way toward any other human being, child or adult.
The following is additional information found on http://www.stopcyberbullying.org on cyber-bullying:
The harasser may post comments intended to cause distress to the victim, or make them the subject of harassment by others. They may send a constant stream of e-mails and instant messages to their victims or a victim’s co-workers, friends, or family. They may pose as the victim and post offensive comments or send offensive messages in their name. They may send hateful or provocative communications to the victim’s boss, family or significant other (in their own name or posing as the victim). Often the victim’s computer is hacked or their e-mail accounts are broken-into by the cyberstalker/harasser and taken over entirely, or the password is changed and the victim locked out of their own accounts. The victim may be signed-up for spam, porn sites and questionable offers.
Cyberstalkers/harassers frequently follow their victims into chat rooms and onto discussion boards, posting lies and hateful messages, or passing misinformation about the victim. They may create sexually explicit images, using the head of their victims attached to the bodies of porn actors. If they have real sexually explicit or nude images of their victims (usually froma failed romantic relationship between the stalker/harasser and the victim), they may create Web sites posting the images and advertising the site to friends and family of the victim, or supply them to commercial porn sites with amateur image sections for public display. We are even familiar with cases where the cyberstalker has threatened the life of the President of the United States or the Queen of England, while posing as the victim.
In the most dangerous type of cases, the cyberstalker posts the name, address and telephone number of the victim online, often posing as them, and soliciting sexual activities on their behalf. In a California case, a man targeted a woman by posting her name and address online and soliciting group sex. The woman had never even used the computer before, but found herself facing angry, sexually frustrated men at her front door.
Death threats are typical in a cyberstalking situation. In fact, there have been several well-publicized cases in the United States where victims were eventually murdered by their stalkers. Many of these began as cyberstalking situations.
If there is any indication that a cyberstalker/harasser knows where the victim lives, works or how to find them offline, law enforcement must be contacted IMMEDIATELY to begin an active investigation into the circumstances of the situation. ©Wiredsafety law enforcement division, CyberLawEnforcement.org assists law enforcement in cyberstalking/harassment cases.
Feel free to use the links above to learn more about what to do in case you or someone you know and love fall victim to cyber-bullying.
In Part III of this series, we will examine the available laws applied toward cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking and cyber-harassment, respectfully. And if research allows and provides, I hope to include links to stories involving criminal incidents resulting from online activities.
Adult Cyber Bullying- Should laws protecting children also be applied toward the safety of Adults?
Part III
Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. And that irritates CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh.
By Declan McCullagh
Published: January 9, 2006, 4:00 AM PST
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Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.
This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.
"The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else."
It's illegal to annoy
A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language.
"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."
To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.
The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16.
There's an interesting side note. An earlier version that the House approved in September had radically different wording. It was reasonable by comparison, and criminalized only using an "interactive computer service" to cause someone "substantial emotional harm."
That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal?
There are perfectly legitimate reasons to set up a Web site or write something incendiary without telling everyone exactly who you are.
A law meant to annoy?
FAQ: The new 'annoy' law explained
A practical guide to the new federal law that aims to outlaw certain types of annoying Web sites and e-mail.
Think about it: A woman fired by a manager who demanded sexual favors wants to blog about it without divulging her full name. An aspiring pundit hopes to set up the next Suck.com. A frustrated citizen wants to send e-mail describing corruption in local government without worrying about reprisals.
In each of those three cases, someone's probably going to be annoyed. That's enough to make the action a crime. (The Justice Department won't file charges in every case, of course, but trusting prosecutorial discretion is hardly reassuring.)
Clinton Fein, a San Francisco resident who runs the Annoy.com site, says a feature permitting visitors to send obnoxious and profane postcards through e-mail could be imperiled.
"Who decides what's annoying? That's the ultimate question," Fein said. He added: "If you send an annoying message via the United States Post Office, do you have to reveal your identity?"
Fein once sued to overturn part of the Communications Decency Act that outlawed transmitting indecent material "with intent to annoy." But the courts ruled the law applied only to obscene material, so Annoy.com didn't have to worry.
"I'm certainly not going to close the site down," Fein said on Friday. "I would fight it on First Amendment grounds."
He's right. Our esteemed politicians can't seem to grasp this simple point, but the First Amendment protects our right to write something that annoys someone else.
It even shields our right to do it anonymously. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended this principle magnificently in a 1995 case involving an Ohio woman who was punished for distributing anonymous political pamphlets.
If President Bush truly believed in the principle of limited government (it is in his official bio), he'd realize that the law he signed cannot be squared with the Constitution he swore to uphold.
And then he'd repeat what President Clinton did a decade ago when he felt compelled to sign a massive telecommunications law. Clinton realized that the section of the law punishing abortion-related material on the Internet was unconstitutional, and he directed the Justice Department not to enforce it.
Bush has the chance to show his respect for what he calls Americans' personal freedoms. Now we'll see if the president rises to the occasion.
As you can see,SOMETHING is being done and this issue is getting the attention of legislators. This issue is being noticed. These issues are being addressed and HARSHLY I might add. AND these laws are all inclusive. Adults and their respective behavior is addressed in this law.
It is worthy to mention that the crime committed against lil Megan Meier was committed by an Adult. AN ADULT! HOW CAN ANY ADULT act this way? AND GET AWAY with it?
The law above is a bit scary by its definition for anyone who frequents forums providing community socializing. An "annoyance" can be deemed to be something as simple as a personality conflict between two screen names. However, if a real person is linked to that screen name as a mandatory measure, as proposed in this law, for using any forum of community socializing, my bet would be that these screen names would change their behavior quickly and keep it appropriate to the venue.
But, having a real name linked to a screen name is kind of scary too. IT only exposes an individual even more for the whole of cyber world to see and possibly use against someone.
So where is there a happy medium? Is there a happy medium? How far left/right must we go to bring us back centered? Right now cyber abuse is so widespread and growing that it needs strict and scary guidelines policing it and even to squealch it out as much as possible.
IS THERE a law that will make an ADULT act like an ADULT?
The links provided below attest to the fact that many States are looking into legislation that is especially for cyber abuse for EVERYONE using the INTERNET.
More Officials Cracking Down on Internet Harassment
To Name Or Not To Name (the St. Charles Journal discusses its reasons for not naming Drew in its original stories about the Meier case)
Cyberbullying Suicide Stokes the Internet Fury Machine
Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify
If you are not convinced now, click on the link below that is a page of cyber crimes that include every kind of abuse one can think of provided to me by MOONSHADOW542:
AOL
Search results for "Click here: Crime and the Internet"
Anyone saying or asserting that this is a wasted effort on my part (as one particular stalker has been saying in my comments section,) is clearly out of touch and has lost sight of what is appropriate online behavior and what is not. Or maybe this stalker is an abuser and sees nothing wrong with it. ONE THING IS SURE, the stalker is an ADULT.
Blaming the victim or putting the burden on the victim to give up a venue of socializing to stop being abused only fuels and feeds the abuse and the abuser. This so called "adult playground" as this stalker termed it is what? A right for adults to act like bullies? We are supposed to be adults for goodness sake!
I think the laws have to be harsh and strict to get this cyber abuses in line and back under control so no more CHILDREN or adults will die or have a threat of dying coming at them out of cyber land. The above law meets with my approval to a point. IT PUTS THE BURDEN on me to ACT ACCORDINGLY and since "annoyance" is so loose in its clarity and definition, I think I shall act by not acting at all. In other words, I think I will cease from participating in any chat room or venue such as a chat room that might cause me to be human and respond to an attack that could be deemed annoying. I think maybe others should follow this practice as well. Especially those abusers that enjoy abusing. Unless they want to be the first one tried under this new law and I bet there will be someone sick enough of the cyber abuse and who uses this law as a remedy.
ANYONE game? Who wants to be first to test the viability of this law? Not I! How about you?
For now, this concludes my Part III of this series and be looking for Part IV of this series which is the conclusion of my reporting on this matter.
Adult Cyber Bullying- Should laws protecting children also be applied toward the safety of Adults?
Part IV and Final
'Cyber-rape' outlawed: N.J. cracks down on computer-aided crime
Date: January 19, 2005
Source: APP.com
By: Kathleen Hopkins
WOOD-RIDGE -- It was a sunny spring day when Trish Barteck was trimming plants in her front yard in this Bergen County community on April 19, 2002.
The youngest of Barteck's three children, a son, then 2, was by her side. A wooden lawn placard of a New York Mets mascot stood guard.
At the corner, a strange man sat in a white sport-utility vehicle, watching. He knew what to look for, right down to the Mets placard.
Barteck didn't know then that the man had ideas of raping her, as the result of a dastardly chat-room plot. Barteck, now 36, felt uneasy about the stranger and called police.
But in the months to come, she would learn that one of her in-laws used an Internet chat room to direct the stranger to her house to rape her. Barteck subsequently embarked on a mission to see that anyone who would put somebody up to such a deed would be successfully prosecuted.
Her mission was accomplished Tuesday when acting Gov. Codey visited her home to sign legislation (A-2864/S-1429) into law.
The measure, inspired by incidents in Bergen and Ocean counties, makes it a crime to use a computer, the Internet or any other electronic means to induce commission of a crime.
A flaw in the law
Source: crime-research.org
http://www.crime-research.org/news/19.01.2005/910/
THANK YOU FISHIHEAD for finding this story for me.
Wow, what a story! But is it really all that unfamiliar to us? No, the sad thing is that it is not. Not only does this story give a prime example of adult online behavior, it also tells the tale of applicable law(s) regarding same and how hard it was to make an existing law apply to the online crime taking place in that story.
If this had happened to a child, the story would be different and the culprit would have been immediately dealt with. BUT this happened to an adult. NOW do you see why I think that laws should apply across the baord to everyone in cyber land? AND remember, the person behind the death of MEGAN MEIER was an ADULT!
I also feel that there should be laws outlawing sexual harassment and prejudices just like in the real world. I cannot get off the proverbial "soap box" about abuse being abuse not matter where it takes place. ALL ABUSE on the INTERNET needs addressing. The measure AND MY PREMISE is IF IT IS INAPPROPRIATE IN REAL LIFE THEN IT IS INAPPROPRIATE ON THE INTERNET AND ONLINE AS WELL.
I also feel the scope of culpablity needs expanding to include HOSTS OF Community Socializing venues.
I think that the coverage of
this topic over the Internet is bringing awareness to others about this
horrible fact of Online Life. Not only is it bringing awareness, I think it is eliciting
a true desire for change in others. Legislators are paying attention and doing
something about it. But I will not be happy until the HOSTS of such
Venues are held to a culpable and higher standard for providing these
"children and adult playgrounds," as one so aptly put it in
my comment section.
NO venue or HOST thereof should be let off the hook out of the scope of culpability just because they have a
set of TOS rules that do not get updated nor applicably changed to fit the
atmospheres of the very venues they provide. AND those very same TOS rules do not get applied equitably or equally across the board. A case in point is
proven by a recent episode with AOL, I had an event that included posting an address that the poster thought was my address in a public forum as well as a threat to injure me in real life. Following this event I wrote an email after having made a telephone call to their Community Action
Team wherein I was informed that I am not supported because I am not an AOL
PAYING MEMBER. AOL did nothing to the MEMBER that was paying them for his AOL and I was left high and dry without any protection because I was a non paying member.
This is the very reason I left that chat room and will not return until there is some kind of safety and protection for my participation in that chat room.
Yes we are making strides in combatting cyber abuse but we have a long way to go. The existing laws, new ones included, are yet to be tested and perfected by being tried at bar. Only then will we know how well they work. The only way we can test and perfect those laws is if we report cyber crimes no matter how small and petty they may seem.
One site I came across in my research and via Moonshadow542 (THANK YOU MOON*) of AOL, is one that is linked to the FBI. THIS site is listed below. I think we need to bombard this site with every compliant of every incident that takes place that falls under the cyber abuse definitions which are clear and precise. Let the laws be tested in this manner and maybe one day we will have a different cyber atmosphere for all.
Welcome to IC3
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).
IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal
complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives
the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism
that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations. For law
enforcement and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3
provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related
crimes.
http://www.ic3.gov/
I honestly believe that we can make a dent in this new TREND of crime and I have tried to provide as much information about this as I can.
This concludes my series on this topic and I hope I have helped in some way anyway no matter how small. Together we can make a difference.
thank you for the information. maybe it will help someone somewhere.
"2002"
HEY YOU LEFT ME OUT OF THAT LIST...WTF LOL???
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