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Flying Omelette wrote:

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I don't think what those people did to that girl was right, but on the other hand, I don't agree with this law at all. This law is just perfect for the Kitsunexus/SlayerX/TermiteJr

Well, I doubt this specific law is gonna go anywhere. It's too vague. It'd probably be more interesting to talk about what, if anything, could be done to regulate internet activity.

I mean, you can't call someone on the phone and shout threats at them. So, it's not like protections against harassment are unprecedented. You just have to define the terms.

I don't know if much could have been done in this particular case. I think part of "harassment" has to mean that a person doesn't want to experience something, but has trouble not. So, Kitsunexis hanging out at our board couldn't possibly count; he could leave any time he wanted.

But to name a specific example that makes me think a line has been crossed was the one about the girl who got in a 100 mph car crash and whose brains were all over the place, and then her picture ended up on the internet and was used to harass her father.

Maybe photographs of people could be considered to be copyrighted to the person they're of; then posting pictures like that would be like uploading pirated movies. Although I doubt this would ever happen; it could have happened before the internet. Thwarting paparazzi would have been a pre-internet motivating factor, but I don't think stuff like that ever had a legal fall out.

(I suppose one reason it would be considered against the public interest to have a law that sweeping would be that it would be impossible or difficult to take newsworthy photographs, such as of politicians, and then publish them. Another argument -- probably the main one, really -- is that if a person is out in the open in public, then anyone could see them -- a photograph would not let people see what they wouldn't be seeing anyway)

Of course, even if it was illegal, you wouldn't be able to get rid of every photo like that on the internet, but you could get it removed from big sites.

I guess a person has a right to be on Myspace, and even Yuku, but maybe not every single Yuku board?

Anyway, what they're charging that woman with is something like computer hacking, because she gave false information to Myspace when she signed up.

She might not be convicted. One thing I heard about that it that it could take those "user agreements" that everyone blindly clicks "yes" on when they sign up for a site the force of law.

For this issue, Germany apparently has strict privacy laws about public photographs.