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Court tosses part of Missouri cyberbully law
the law. The law was passed in 2008, a year after Megan Meier , 13, of Dardenne Prairie took her own life. An adult neighbor, Lori Drew , had posed as a 16-year-old boy on MySpace, first befriending Megan and then turning on her. Drew was acquitted of criminal 5/30/12 from United Press International Read more »
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Mo. court strikes down part of 2008 harassment law
said adult neighbor Lori Drew, her employee and her teenage daughter were involved in creating a fake MySpace profile of an attractive teenage boy — "Josh" — to see what Megan was saying about the daughter online. A jury in California found Drew guilty of from Sify Read more »
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From Lori Drew To Dharun Ravi, Punishing People Based On Others' Suicides Is A Mistake
what we're supposed to do. Being a jerk should get you shunned, but not put in prison. A few years back, we covered the Lori Drew case, involving charges brought against a woman who stupidly set up a fake user account on MySpace to try to find out what was from Techdirt Read more »
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Tyler Clementi and cyberbullying: how courts ruled in five other cases
in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) Prosecutors said Lori Drew, 49, used the social networking site MySpace in 2006 to create a fictitious online profile of a young man who flirted with from Christian Science Monitor Read more »
