Posted on 10/16/2009 9:58:23 AM PDT by TChris
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Somerset Police arrested a 16-year-old girl on charges of online harassment. She was arrested under a new law that took effect September 1.
The new Texas law criminalizes online harassment on social networking sites and through e-mail or text messaging. H.B. 2003 states a person commits a third degree felony if the person posts one or more messages on a social networking site with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten another person.
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It all comes down to how it's written on the books.
Thank you for defining that. In any case, everyone really needs to think carefully what they say before they post it, that’s just using good manners and common sense...though I agree with Voltaire, “common sense is not so common.”
#28 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2363989/posts?page=28#28 (the one after the one you originally respoded to)
No argument there.. just pointing out that a lawyer with an agenda could attempt to use this against us (not saying he would win, but he could attempt it).
We'll have to settle things outside, behind the brassworks like in the good old days.
How ‘bout “Go to Port Arthur !” ?
Oye, just tonight someone called me shallow, desperate, homely, lonely and weird, accused me of drooling over pictures of handsome young men, and accused me of being on the same mental level as men. And that was just one poster!
Do they live in Texas?
South Carolina.
[[Remember in Hustler vx=s. Falwell, the Supreme Court ruled in the past that pranks and satire, which although can be hurtful, is still protected speech, because there is reasonable doubt as to the veracity of the claim.]]
But only when perpetrated agaisnt Christians- to do so against any other group will now be concidered ‘hate speech’ according to new laws being proposed (and who knows, probably already enacted). As long as you are only’ trampling al over the rights and feeligns of Christians, you’re golden, but do so agaisnt any other group, and get labelled a racist hate-monguerer in violation of hate crimes laws
[[Oye, just tonight someone called me shallow, desperate, homely, lonely and weird, accused me of drooling over pictures of handsome young men, and accused me of being on the same mental level as men. And that was just one poster!]]
They were just jealous
Projection. Pure projection, a liberal's stock-in-trade.
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