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i'm not making excuses for the kid's parents, i'm making excuses for HER. she doesn't deserve that? yeah so shes on myspace at age 13, so I was already lookin at Playboy and listening to gangster rap and playing violent video games with my friends at age 13, so you grow up fast. But I didn't have any adults sticking it in my face either. it's like, here ya go Timmy, go play with this unloaded gun. you might THINK it's harmless, but you forgot about that bullet in the chamber.
I don't think anyone here (I cant speak for those crazy Parents groups) is saying we need to censor the internet, or make it less free, trust me I'm the first one complaining whenever they pass new laws 'for the children', we're saying you should have some responsibility for your actions, virtual or otherwise. Harassment is already illegal. It doesnt matter if you do it over the internet, text message, hand-written letter, or verbally. If you follow a 13-year-old around in public telling them the worlds better off without them you're probably going to have some explaining to do too. I don't know exactly what the mother's involvement was, but I suppose that's what the court needs to figure out. the internet is not and never has been some place outside of the law, sure most people, online or irl, do get away with most crimes, but its always a roll of the dice, somebody loses eventually.
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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