Lawmakers target ‘cyber-bullies’

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The deception involved over the internet is probably more understandable to people becuz they understand one cannot see who one is talking to so the opportunity for deception is obvious.

I dont think its so obvious to a teen ager however who is not trained in critical thinking or perhaps may not be good at assessing security risks by his nature.

Yet deception is the number one ingredient that makes this formula work for the perpetrators.
That and the Targets trust in other human beings.

Its very difficult. These tactics remind me of the gorilla warfare the that sank the Vietnam vets when they were over there. No decent American of that era, as it was told to me as a youngster would have ever expected a person to strap a bomb to a baby. Soldiers are lonely they pick up the youngster-its over. They trusted. They went on preconcieved notions of what human behavior was supposed to consist of. The innocence of their culture got them screwed.

You can no longer look someone in the eye to know what they are about. Listen to the sound of thier voice, make a judgement.
I have never been cyber stalked becuz i was so heavily targeted in person. That was something I jsut knew better than to subject myself too. But people are looking at the internet differently than I. They see it as a playground, some safe world becuz its 'cyber'.

Now I think of it this would be the typical naivete of a culture that doesnt really acknowledge the 'unseen' as valid.
You'd better start realizing that the internet is like a city...with alleys and bad nieghborhoods and 'bad' people like any other place. There the ghetto's can come alive but so can the sociopaths who reside in the 'nice' houses who seems respectable. Its a parellel of the physical world but you're going in there blind. Total sensory deprivation. No sight, no sound, taste, smell touch.
If you get sight and sound on who your talking to i am sure it would help.

I was in MO when they targeted that young girl who died.
Then of course the public still doesnt get it so they text the perps phone with nasty messages.

GET A CLUE ABOUT THE NATURE OF STALKERS!!!:
All this woman did was get rid of her phone. People who do things like this are big time into aviodance of responsibility. They have criminal minds, they know what they can get away with.
Dont validate the system by fighting fire with fire. All your doing is giving people like this the attention that they want for doing something nasty.

The best thing to do is protect yourselves against opportunists and realize that laws are going to have to come about soon becuz terroring and cyberstalking is a huge problem and people are getting killed.

Unfortunatley, the view that we had of the internet in the 1990's was of the most positive uses for it. As usual the tech has fallen into the wrong hands.
This is simply you having to face the true nature of the human race all over again via the internet. Humans are murderers, but unlike the rest some people neeed no good reason to destroy another person.

Be easier with yourselves, your dealing with a whole planet now, not just your own neighborhood. Its an ocean of people and getting caught by sharks is the nature of it probably.

Just change the way you think about security that's all.

Typical ACLU... Why would you not hold people responsible for thier actions? Free speech is one thing, libel and psychological harassment are quite different.

Alot of us organized stalking targets are none to happy with them becuz they sysematically refuse our cases, but our situations are odd if not bizarre in nature if looked at thru the eyes of day to day society.
In fact I wonder if regular people are not suffering becuz it would be impossible to create laws of this nature without setting a precedent for persons being targeted for covert warfare, which i understand gets into possible organized crime or other prefer-to-be-hidden groups with agendas.
But in the actions of the people involved its all the same. The behavior of the cyber stalker is quite like that of any other stalker or person who uses deception to destroy another.