Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Wait, you're saying ignorance *is* a defense? [Adventures in Ethics and Science]

And you're really a lawyer?

The verdict came back in the Los Angeles trial of Lori Drew, the Missouri mother who facilitated cyberbullying of a former friend of her daughter, who subsequently committed suicide. Since cyberbulling isn't an easy crime to prosecute, the trial focused on whether, in setting up a fake MySpace page as a 16-year-old boy (whose online identity was used to befriend and then harass the girl who killed herself), Drew violated MySpace terms of service.

So, here's the legal point- counterpoint, as reported by the Associated Press:

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