Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Many Questions Over Online Identity - NYTimes.com

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/us/28internet.html?ref=technology

Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Many Questions Over  
Online Identity


Is lying about one's identity on the Internet now a crime?


The verdict Wednesday in the MySpace cyberbullying case raised a  
variety of questions about the terms that users agree to when they log  
on to Web sites.

The defendant in the case, a Missouri woman, was convicted by a  
federal jury in Los Angeles on three misdemeanor counts of computer  
fraud for having misrepresented herself on the popular social network  
MySpace. The woman, Lori Drew, posed as a teenage boy in using the  
account to send first friendly and then menacing messages to Megan  
Meier, 13, who killed herself shortly after receiving a message in  
October 2006 that said in part, "The world would be a better place  
without you."

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