Vague News: Is lying about one's identity on the Internet a crime?
Welcome to the Cyberculture News Psychoanalytic Research Lab. If you didn't sign our ToS agreement before crawling thru the Windows, forget about it. We are not going to sue you for misrepresenting yourself and telling other parties what you found on this site. Besides, we have other problems to contend with right now. Mainly, the Cyberculture News has so many different personalities on staff we have a problem of being upfront and truthful with who we really are because if we allowed everyone of them to get more then a few words in at a time...
Damm... I hate when Grandisimo sends thought beings to mess with my mental state of mind.
Did you comprehend any of that? I didn't think you would because I don't understand any of it either.
It's really difficult to write about something when God only knows how many personalities are rapidly surfacing and taking control of single person's thoughts, although it does make the brain a wee bit tired.
Ok... Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Many Questions Over Online Identity - NYTimes.com is the headline of the day.
The question of the day is;
To be an online fraud or not to be, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer...
Stop right there Shakespeare.
First of all, it is not noble to suffer in the mind.
Second, that guy writes like we do... can't understand anything he writes. Really... how many centuries have gone by since he wrote those words? Forget about it... the point is that people are still trying to figure out what he was writing about a thousand or so years later.
Cool... maybe a 1000 years from now someone will be writing and talking about what we are trying to say.
Ya right... I hear they are auditioning for the biggest losers down the hall Moron.
Really? .... Hey... you're just jealous because I hear voices and you don't.
Getting back to the news, The verdict in the MySpace cyber-bullying case is raising a number of questions pertaining to terms of service agreements that users agree to when they log on to Web sites. The defendant was convicted by a federal jury on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud for having misrepresented herself and gaining “unauthorized access” to the site which falls under a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
Some of the more mental stimulating questions and comments are...
Somebody call Al Zheimers in here. This will be good for him.
“It will be interesting to see if issues of safety and security will eventually trump the hallmark ideology of free, largely anonymous or pseudonymous participation in cyberspace,” said Sameer Hinduja, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University.Andrew M. Grossman, senior legal policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, said the possibility of being prosecuted for online misrepresentation, while remote, should worry users nonetheless.
“The reality, recognized by almost everyone, is that the vast majority of Internet users do not read Web site terms of service carefully or at all,” said Phil Malone, director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School.
Is lying about one's identity on the Internet now a crime? If it is.... I'm in big trouble because I really don't know who I really am.
Do you know who you really are online?
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