Calif. Appeals Court OKs Cyber-Bullying Suit
Is this the beginning of the wake up call? The start of justice being served to the bullies? Earlier this week, an appeals court in California rules that threats posted on a 15-year-old boy’s website are not protected free speech.
The First Amendment will allow you to be a cynic; it will allow you to criticize… but you CANNOT stand behind it to threaten others – in real life or online.
Just a shame that we have let it get this far. If parents were monitoring their children’s activity with computer monitoring software like our awesome PC Pandora 6.0, they would be able to stop their child from acting like a bully online and keep them out of the courts. It’ll also tell you if your child is a victim and not saying anything to you about it…
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March 17, 2010
Calif. appeals court OKs cyber-bullying suit
Los Angeles, CA (AP) — A California appeals court ruled that Internet threats posted on a 15-year-old boy’s Web site are not protected free speech in what may be the state’s first case to examine the boundaries between free expression and cyber-bullying.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in a 2-1 decision Monday that the boy can sue schoolmates over the messages, which included threats to “rip out your … heart and feed it to you” and to “pound your head in with an ice pick.”