Is it fraud to use a fake identity on the net?
Federal officials in Los Angeles are investigating whether it was fraud for someone to use a false identity on an Internet social network in a taunting blamed for the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier.
And then there are the norm police. Also relevant are the cyberstalking statutes:
It has been defined as the use of information and communications technology, particularly the Internet, by an individual or group of individuals, to harass another individual, group of individuals, or organization. The behavior includes false accusations, monitoring, the transmission of threats, identity theft, damage to data or equipment, the solicitation of minors for sexual purposes, and any form of aggression. The harassment must be such that a reasonable person, in possession of the same information, would regard it as sufficient to cause another reasonable person distress.[1]
Great thanks to Jeff Trexler, a Yale Law trained JD, for the links posted in a comment to an earlier post.
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JOE: When you look at Facebook and social networking in general, it sort of heralds a fundamental change in how community works online. Before social networking, before Friendster, community online was very niche and very disconnected. You had Star Wars fans, and they got online and found other Star Wars fans, and their identity was sort of a handle. They were Hans Solo, or whomever. But it wasn’t them and there was no real connection to their real life. Then Facebook came along, and it’s about real people and real lives. A person’s profile contains his or her real photo and a real name. To convince your friends that I’m you would be pretty much impossible. Facebook creates this very trusted identity. And so what you’ve got now with Facebook is what (cofounder) Mark Zuckerberg likes to call the social graph — people connected to other people’s friends. It’s a map of social connections. What that allows you to do is to take things that are real-world and put them on this space and have them work far, far more efficiently.
Posted by: Chester Drawers | January 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Yeah, and once they own your network of friends, they own you. No thanks, I'll take my plain old fashioned WB please.
Posted by: Gerry | January 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Selection
Lambs with creamy-white fat tend to be younger. Avoid meat with crumbly or yellowish fat unless you’re specifically looking for an older animal.
Posted by: LOVE the ONE you EAT | January 16, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Posted the link about Facebook generation. Reminds me of a mall we have in Dallas with an ice rink in the center, and coffee shops, restaurants, cafes, around the edges. Just like a town square. Christmas Carolers too, but if you carry in a protest sign they call the security guards. We can change Wealth Bondage from inside, sort of. Rev Billy does his interventions in Starbucks, I believe.
Posted by: phil | January 16, 2008 at 08:18 PM
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us--don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring blog!
Posted by: Haughty Caustic Nitwit | January 16, 2008 at 11:42 PM
The Belle of Amherst blogged alone.
Posted by: phil | January 17, 2008 at 12:08 AM
He favors his left leg. I'd start there if I were you.
(First dibs if you can't take him down.)
Posted by: LOVE the ONE you EAT | January 17, 2008 at 01:43 AM