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from Sugar & Spice I was reading an article in the newspaper today about the trial of the Missouri woman accused of contributing to the suicide of a 13 year old girl after she and her daughter and an assistant tormented the girl over a period of time . I thought to myself, "damn, it's a good thing I'm not a depressed 13 year old girl, or some folks who visit my blog would find themselves on the wrong side of the law," because the things that have been uttered here at this blog and others to folks who refuse to get in line behind the Obama pied piper parade are pretty amazing and not in a good way. This MySpace suicide case has been in the news a lot over the past week with the trial going on and I've been keeping track of it if for no other reason than everytime I open the newspaper each day, there's an update. Earlier, I decided to do a Google search to see if I could find a definition of sorts about the Federal description of Cyber Bullying, when I foun...

Privacy, Free Speech and Anonymity on the Internet On Friday, January 11, 2008; 12:00 PM -- Daniel J. Solove, associate law professor at George Washington University and author of "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet," will be online Friday, Jan. 11 at Noon ET to resume his discussion about the Megan Meier-MySpace suicide case and the growing concern over the "Google Generation." Daniel J. Solove, Associate Law Professor, George Washington University and Author, 'The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet' CLICK HERE FOR HOW TO SUBMIT QUESTIONS & JOIN THE DISCUSSION READ MORE: DEATH BY 1000 PAPERCUTS - MEGAN MEIER/MYSPACE LIBRARY

HELICOPTER PARENTING + SICK CYBERBULLY = SUICIDE I originally posted the article by writer, Kathy Krajco, with an blog post this past June. The Megan Meier/ MySpace Suicide case made me think of it again. I have been following the tsunami of posts on the web and the outcry for justice for Megan Meier, who committed suicide just a little over a year ago due to being harrassed and taunted by an ADULT "friend of the family", Lori Drew and a few others helping Drew. For the last year Drew has been simply telling the Meier family to "give it a rest." The stress has led the Meiers to divorce and Lori has gone on her merry way, BLAMING MEGAN because "Megan was suicidal anyway." (Lori Drew is in advertising & marketing so we can be fairly sure she's used to embellishing things...) Lori Drew is, in my opinion, an INTERNET PREDATOR. They come in all shapes and sizes. After targetting, grooming, profiling and then setting up Megan; Lori started a fake My...

MEGAN MEIER - SUICIDE WAKE UP CALL! Even online, lives can be broken and destroyed. I've been there myself. The cruelty of those who get their kicks hurting & using others online is unfathomable. It's something I will never understand for the rest of my days. My prayers go out to the Meier family. MySpace, Facebook, MSN, AOL, Paltalk, YahooChat... doesn't matter. There has to be accountability for what was done to this child! CNN Transcript of Interview with Megan Meier's Parents AZUZ: And teachers, that's why we urge you to preview this segment, which discusses a teenager's suicide. Now, bullying has been around for a long time, and we've probably all seen some form of it: kids getting picked on for what they wear, something they say, sometimes for no reason at all. With social networking sites, bullying has moved online. Gary Tuchman tells us the tragic story of one teen who became the object of this kind of cyber-harassment. GARY TUCHMAN, CNN R...

JIBS and OTHERS - HACKED Owning a computer used to be a big deal, just like having a color TV was a WOW factor for a family. Now everyone has them. Even keyboard terrorists and loonies of all stripe. We all know about the "online disinhibition effect." No one can see you or hear you so you can be big and bad behind a keyboard, right? You can imply, smear or hack up someone's hard work and just laugh about it right? In my opinion, WRONG. Click BagelBlogger and Walking on Fire for their posts already covering the JIB awards site being hacked. Today I got home after dropping my kids at school and doing some important errands and sat down to take a look at my RSS readers. I saw something I found important I went to blog about it - but discovered that my blog had been hacked. At first I blamed myself - thought in my stupidity I'd inserted some bad code. But no, there was a black box and then in my template, literally chunks of the code that make up my blog were g...