Julia Borchert, CS 408, Section 1, Assignment # 5

• Ari Rosen
• Jake Gomes
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Group 6 Section 01- MySpace Suicide

• How much responsibility do you feel these social networking sites have in these incidents?

  I do not feel these social networking sites should have any responsibility in these incidents. Social networking sites are set up to connect people with no intention of negative uses. So they cannot be responsible for any misuses.

• How much responsibility do parents have (the parents of the victims and the parents of the perpetrators). Should social networking sites be held criminally libel for these types of incidents?

  I think that in this case the parents of the perpetrators are almost wholly responsible because they participated in the bullying. I think the parents of the victim hold some responsibility because they did not monitor their child’s Internet use.

• What can be done to prevent these types of incidents?

  If there were some kind of mandatory course that educated children about the dangers of the Internet there would be a significant decrease in these incidents.

• In Megan's case, do you feel criminal charges are warranted against the neighbor who pretended to be Josh?

  No, I do not feel there could be any criminal charges because that would violate a person’s right to freedom of speech.

• What laws do you feel might apply?

  Some law that might apply to this incident would be an electronic impersonation law that would help avoid bullying under a false name.