{"id":1861,"date":"2008-11-21T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2008-11-21T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T01:26:01","slug":"lori-drew-case-on-track-to-make-bad-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/21\/lori-drew-case-on-track-to-make-bad-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Drew Case: On Track to Make Bad Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am shocked the Lori Drew case actually went to trial &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/20\/us\/20myspace.html?ref=technology\">opening statements took place yesterday<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I wrote about this case <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/08\/friday-notes-08-08-08-edition\/\">back in August<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lori Drew case is a case full of disgusting facts &#8211; appalling adult behavior (on all sides) contributed to circumstances that drove a young girl to suicide.\u00c2\u00a0 One of those adults is now being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for <em>violating the MySpace.com terms of use agreement<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, Federal prosecutors are trying to treat not complying with those ridiculous click-through agreements on nearly every web site you use as a <em>crime<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully not everyone is losing their mind over this (horrible) situation, and the EFF, Public Citizen, and others have <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080804-eff-myspace-suicide-charges-a-threat-to-free-speech.html\">stepped in with an amicus brief<\/a> demonstrating just what a bad idea this is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t followed things closely, but given what a stretch it is to apply the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to these facts, I assumed it was going to settle.\u00c2\u00a0 Because truly, who would expect we were about to move into a world that made it a Federal crime to fill out a website user registration form with anything other than your true and personal information.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet we&#8217;ll take a big step toward that being the case if Lori Drew is convicted.\u00c2\u00a0 And with the facts being presented to the jury, I think that&#8217;s a very real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>More background on the case itself <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7738982.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am shocked the Lori Drew case actually went to trial &#8211; opening statements took place yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I wrote about this case back in August: The Lori Drew case is a case full of disgusting facts &#8211; appalling adult behavior (on all sides) contributed to circumstances that drove a young girl to suicide.\u00c2\u00a0 One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}