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Whatever gooses your gander ([info]khym_chanur) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-06-08 19:11:00
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Current mood:energetic

Being meen iz illegull OMG!!1!!11
A law was passed in Washington state (U.S.), making "cyberstalking" illegal, and defining it as thus:

  1. A person is guilty of cyberstalking if he or she, with intent to harass, intimidate, torment, or embarrass any other person, and under circumstances not constituting telephone harassment, makes an electronic communication to such other person or a third party:
    1. Using any lewd, lascivious, indecent, or obscene words, images, or language, or suggesting the commission of any lewd or lascivious act;
    2. Anonymously or repeatedly whether or not conversation occurs; or
    3. Threatening to inflict injury on the person or property of the person called or any member of his or her family or household.
That's right, "embarrass"ing someone is illegal. It can also be to a third party. So, is F_W making more than one post about a wanker count a "stalking"? Or, since we often use "indecent" words (fuckin'-A!), does that count?

ETA: I corrected the link that pointed at itself. Sorry for being a dumb-ass. <smacks self>


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[info]chaimonkey
2004-06-09 03:36 am UTC (link)
teh intarnet lawyer has arrived.

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[info]pyratejenni
2004-06-09 03:56 am UTC (link)
Satire and parody can be embarrassing.

It'll wind up in court.

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[info]kijikun
2004-06-09 03:58 am UTC (link)
Deleted my post after doing some checking. None of the major news websites have anything about this, neither does Chilling Effects.

The only thing wanky here this being posted. If I am wrong please just point me in the direction of a news link with information on this new Wasghton state law.

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[info]crickets
2004-06-09 04:04 am UTC (link)
I found it. It's formally known as House Bill 2771.

http://access.wa.gov/leg/2004/Mar/n2004224_2552.aspx
http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo1/dspBillSummary.cfm?billnumber=2771

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[info]kijikun
2004-06-09 04:07 am UTC (link)
Okay, it just seemed very odd that there was no links plus nothing on any major news site. Plus I suspect that embaressing is meant to be taken as emailing naked pictures of an ex to a boss and such.

Still not really wank.

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[info]daijinryuu
2004-06-09 04:13 am UTC (link)
Not inherently, but you just know someone's going to take advantage of it. See also: DMCA.

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[info]crickets
2004-06-09 04:40 am UTC (link)
It will be. It will be. /Yoda

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ataniell93
2004-06-09 04:05 am UTC (link)
I think you'd have to prove that the poster was trying to embarrass Ima B. Wanking, of 2345 MsAllegra Street, of Upper Twattington, New Jersey, as opposed to [info]dorkyfangirl. Because on the internet nobody knows you're a dog. You'd have to expose the person's actual real life identity and be trying to embarrass them in some potentially costly way.

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-09 04:13 am UTC (link)
Exactly. I am a member of the cybercrime law enforcement community (I don't arrest people, I just giggle over the contents of their hard drives), and in legal terms 'embarrass' does not mean "OMG they were MEEEEEAAAN to me!" It means that you did something to humilate them in some way that affects their real life, not made their net handle look silly.

Silrana on lj

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[info]guinevere33
2004-06-09 12:48 pm UTC (link)
Ah, like the one case a year or so ago of a slasher being made to quit her job. She worked for a politician and someone she pissed off online told her hometown newspaper that she wrote porn.

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[info]smo
2004-06-09 02:47 pm UTC (link)
o_O

Note to self: don't work for a politician.

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[info]ymfaery
2004-06-09 08:03 pm UTC (link)
IIRC he sounded like a really cool politician. The arsehole contacted the employer first, and he either didn't care, laughed it off with the fanfic writer, or both. That's why it got taken to the paper.

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[info]bunny
2004-06-09 04:58 pm UTC (link)
That was msscribe. But that wasn't about slash, it was about writing Harry Potter smut as far as I remember.

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ataniell93
2004-06-09 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Yup, she writes het.

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[info]iczer6
2004-06-09 04:42 am UTC (link)
You'd have to expose the person's actual real life identity and be trying to embarrass them in some potentially costly way.

I hope so.

I do think that trying to cut down on stuff like cyber-stalking is a good idea.

I've talked to a few people who've had that happen and it can be a scary and frustrating thing because there's not a lot you can do except retire your internet identity and hope the stalker doesn't find your new one.

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2004-06-09 05:18 am UTC (link)
*sporfle* Love the address.

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[info]criticalcricket
2004-06-09 04:13 am UTC (link)
Once upon a time people knew how to take care of themselves. Now they all run to their mommies and the interweb lawyers and cry until someone gives them money.

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-09 04:16 am UTC (link)
AWESOME BROKEN HTML

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[info]c_chan
2004-06-09 04:56 am UTC (link)
...this is Super Nanny's doing, isn't it.

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[info]musette
2004-06-09 06:03 am UTC (link)
Took the words right out my damn mouth.

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[info]backfromspace
2004-06-09 06:44 am UTC (link)
CURSE YOU, SUPER NANNY.

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[info]elfy
2004-06-09 06:04 am UTC (link)
ETA: I corrected the link that pointed at itself. Sorry for being a dumb-ass.

So... being that you just internet embarrassed your internet self does this mean you get to internet sue you for being an internet stalker?

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[info]khym_chanur
2004-06-09 06:06 am UTC (link)
So... being that you just internet embarrassed your internet self does this mean you get to internet sue you for being an internet stalker?

My recursion is pastede on yay!

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[info]xturtle
2004-06-09 07:17 am UTC (link)
*dies*

This is the best "pastede on" yet.

YAY!

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[info]lurker32
2004-06-09 01:31 pm UTC (link)
My pastede on is pastede on yay?

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[info]vassilissa
2004-06-09 11:42 am UTC (link)
It was *passed*? *blinks*

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[info]darkwitch666
2004-06-09 02:24 pm UTC (link)
I think we're okay. Our intent isn't to harass, intimidate, torment, or embarrass. It's to mock. It has nothing to do with them at all.

Though it suddenly seems that when off-site OPs show up here to flame us, *WE* might have a case. ;)

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[info]crickets
2004-06-09 05:40 pm UTC (link)
Icon!

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[info]smo
2004-06-09 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Though it suddenly seems that when off-site OPs show up here to flame us, *WE* might have a case.

Except that we're laughing too hard to give a crap.

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[info]darkwitch666
2004-06-09 09:13 pm UTC (link)
True. Making it one of the least useful and most wasteful laws on the books.

Until they write the next one, that is.

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[info]ymfaery
2004-06-09 08:17 pm UTC (link)
Only if any of the parties involved are in Washington state, I'd think.

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[info]darkwitch666
2004-06-09 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Eh, with the internet it's hard to tell. I suppose it wouldn't make much sense to file a complaint if you didn't live in-state, though. :)

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[info]esorlehcar
2004-06-10 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Guess where MsA lives?

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[info]daijinryuu
2004-06-11 03:02 am UTC (link)
Denial?

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