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I'm torn--while I think what this woman did is heinous, I'm not sure how I feel about the precedent this sets. The law is ill-equipped to handle "cyber crimes", and I'm not really comfortable with bending the laws to make them fit the crime. If we as a society feel the need to punish this sort of behavior, we need laws designed to prosecute it, ones that set out a clear actus reas and mens rea. Not everything that is "wrong" is a crime. (just as I don't believe everything that is a crime is wrong) So I feel until we have laws, we cannot hold people accountable for breaking them.
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