hurlingdervish wrote:well the government had hand in starting it but its still not being policed. if it was people would be fined or even ARRESTED for posting pictures of them smoking weed or exposing themselves.
I would disagree about it not being policed, but I doubt either of us has real proof to offer one way or the other. There is also a big difference between people exposing themselves/smoking weed and pictures of people with mass quantities of drugs and having sex with kids, proof of which would directly instigate policing directly connected to the internet, should these pictures be found on the internet. As it is, the government would be wasting incalculable amounts of time were they to pursue your average pothead/flasher, which is why a lot of them get off with little repercussion in comparison to people who trade in child porn and sell mass quantities of drugs.
hurlingdervish wrote:the difference between a death threat in real life and on the internet is HUGE
I would have to disagree there, and I know there are enough rockers with psycho ex's on this forum that would agree with me - if one of my ex's posted a comment/emailed me on facebook about murdering me, you bet your ass I'd report it - with some people, you just can't take the chance that they're bullshitting you. Maybe you haven't had the pleasure of having such a woman in your life, but you'll know after you've had one, and you will probably find yourself agreeing with me at that point.
hurlingdervish wrote:in real life you probably know them, and they know you, your family, where you live, and they have the potential to stalk you on the way to work without any techy knowledge like how to get your address from your ip or find records of your credit card
I guess I don't get where that comment is coming from, of course they have better opportunities to stalk in real life if they know you. The point is that the idiot in the the article made a public death threat to someone who has a history with her, and the possibility of it being real was evident enough that she plead guilty.
hurlingdervish wrote:on the internet, you don't know the person who is threatening you anymore than they know you. and they aren't easily going to back up any threats they make without serious knowledge of how to gain your personal information. and lets face it the people making the threats aren't smart enough to do any of that.
I absolutely agree with that - that's exactly what I was saying about meeting someone like cperezzzzz in real life.
hurlingdervish wrote:its the mod's business to ban them, not the affected to sue.
I agree, in the case of a threat posted on a forum by someone you don't know, but not in the case where there is no mod, such as facebook, and especially not in a case where someone has already had the police called on her for stalking and physically harassing someone in real life multiple times over four years. Also, the girl wasn't sued, she was booked with charges pressed against her for harassment, which is a whole different animal than the model suing a blogger in civil court for defamation (see the very first post in this thread, which is different than the article that was I originally responding to - personally, I think that lawsuit is bullshit, but no more bullshit than anonymously slandering someone for no good reason).
hurlingdervish wrote:keep in mind that its 60 year olds that make the law and they have NO clue what is what on the internet and never will at this rate, so any laws they implement will be far too extreme for the circumstances.
I do agree with that, and I believe such a policy that puts people who would be retired in charge of our country is absolutely fucked up, but it doesn't change the fact that those people are in charge, senior citizens put them there and outvote every other demographic in the country, which leads me to a point about legislation that is pretty much undeniable:
john doe by choice wrote:if that girl had been threatened on facebook then actually murdered after the threat was ignored, it would be another point in the favor of legislators to make everything much worse for our internet privacy than it is now.
I missed that one. my weekend was crazier than I realized. I did what???