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2014-07-03 -Land of the Free

New York Court Strikes Down Cyberbullying Law

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The Albany law made it a crime to electronically communicate "private, personal, false, or sexual information," intended to "harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm on another person" for no legitimate purpose. Good decision. I would think that much of this is covered under other laws such as slander and libel laws. You can not enact a law that is going to protect people from the way they are going to feel about something. Words such as "harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm" are vague, fuzzy and otherwise meaningless; they are based on however you "feel" about what is being said. Some people may be very sensitive to such words whereas others just let the words just roll off their backs. Not a way to make laws.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-03 11:14|| 2014-07-03 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually I think the reason it got struck down is more the left is afraid of it being used against them, given their normal mode of operation in regards to behavior online.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-07-03 23:40|| 2014-07-03 23:40|| Front Page Top

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