What's everyone opinion on online cyberharrasment,cyberstalking and cyber bulling.I was a victim of cyberharrasment,bullying and stalking on 2 site loveshack and enotalone because i was a virgin and spoke about it. The moderator did nothing to my cyberharrassor but i was victimize . I even had a moderator say he didn't like me posting about virginity. I think it's time cybercriminal be stop but how.

forreal

Scott,

Can you educate other forum moderators?

ScottGem

I don't think any of the mods here (or any any of the sites I frequent) need to be educated. As I said, I don't think anyone who operates a site is going to be totally unaware of this phenomenon. After all its been around for decades.

Before you join or participate in a site, check out their Terms of Service. If they don't have one, that's not a good sign. People need to be aware that a WEB site is NOT a fully public area. WEB sites are owned by individuals and companies. The site owner has the right to operate the site in any way they see fit as long as no illegal acts are committed.

forreal

Scott,

I'm not talking about this forum.I wish you or someone could go to other online messageboard and be a teacher on cyber bullying.


I just wanted to share this infromation to everyone and i hope more people enforce this new law but enforcing cybercrime takes patience and time.

"Writing annoying, anonymous online posts or e-mails could land you in jail for as long as two years. That's according to the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, which was signed into law last week."
According to a section of the act, anyone who uses the Internet anonymously "with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person" can be tried for violating federal telecommunications law and face fines or jail.

Curlyben

We seem to be missing the WHOLE picture here.

Now ALL mods and admins I have ever "met" wouldn't just respond in this manner unless there was more to a given situation.

So we've heard you're side of this story and that you where harressed and stalked, but without the entire picture it is very difficult to draw any concrete conclusons as to their, the other mods/admins, actions.

I have help to have a number of extremely unsavory characters removed from sites for similar activities, and I still do.

Now this kind of activity WILL NOT be tolerated here.
If I ever hear of it, I'll deal with it swiftly and finally as will the other mods/admins of AMHD.

ScottGem

First, I barely have the time to keep up my Q&A activities so I'm not going to be able to carry on a campaign against this.

Second, I do thank you for bringing that law to my attention. Though, like many laws I doubt if we will ever see it enforced. There are several problems with it.

1) It applies only to US citizens
2) It can be enforced only when the actions occur on a US based site or ISP or if the site operator is willing to cooperate with US law enforcement.
3) No federal prosecutor is going to waste their time prosecuting a violation of this.

To prosecute they would have to subpeona the records of site to determine the IP of the perpetrator. Then they would have to subpeona the records of the ISP that issued the IP to identify the real person that used it. If either the site and/or the ISP is outside the US then they have no power to get that ID.

The only real impact this might have is it might force operators of US sites to tighten their TOS and take more notice of complaints least they be held liable under this statute.

forreal

Scott,

We already have one man going to jail under this new law so everybody beware.The victim said it took a long time to get to the finish line but it was worth the trouble.

forreal

Curlyben,


I understand you need to hear the other side but it still doesn't change the fact that i was cyber harrass on 2 messageboard and i never got any moderator support.
I want people to know that these 2 boards (not askmehelpdesk) support cyberharrassment and if you speak out.The forum will give you wrongful violation and ban you. I want people to know about that new 2005 cyber law.

NeedKarma

Dude, you went to dating message boards and talked about your pride in your virginity, what did you expect? Are you aware that most people are there to hook up for sex eventually? That's like going to Bill O'Reilly's board and telling how liberal you are. If you go somewhere and post against the ideology of that board then I would expect you'd get some negative responses.

forreal

needkarma,

Why can't virgins be part of a dating or relationship advice board and I didn't know virgins couldn't talk about dating,relationship and sex.
The 2 forums i'm talking about are not a dating messageboard but a relationship advice forum.This isn't liberal vs conservatives.
needkarma if what you're saying is true then i think those 2 messageboard need to say" no virgins on this forum"

ScottGem

I think you miss the point. Would you log onto Al Jazeera and start talking about Christianity? If you did, would you be surprised that you are flamed? Would you log onto a site for victims of the Holocaust and deny it happened and then be surprised you get harassed? While these are extreme examples, you have to show some sense about what you talk about. Look at the terms of service for this site and what it says about not allowing illegal activities. Then look at threads like this one:
http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/video-g...tml#post196325
and see the reaction.

I don't know the sites you had a bad experience with. I don't know what you said that caused the reaction you got. So I can't say whether it was deserved or not. But one has to use some sense when they post on these sites.

You cite someone who has been prosecuted under this law. Can you provide more details?