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Mookhow
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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.

Somerset Chief Martin Chavez said the department had enough probable cause to issue a warrant for the young girl's arrest.

"Don't harass people online. The crime is severe, it's a third degree felony. So, even if you're joking sometimes it can really hurt people and now it's against the law," said Chief Chavez.

Details of the incident weren't made available, but police say the harassment went on for a few months and involved a dispute over a boy.

The 16-year-old girl has a detention hearing Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

It seems the goal of the new law was to discourage using the name or persona of another person to create a Web page. Some people expect legal challenges to the constitutionality of the new internet law.

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Without detail on what she actually engaged in, it's impossible to really have much of a comment.
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Sure it's possible to comment. It's a shitty law, no matter how nobly-intented it is.

Laws which criminalize intent are either terrifyingly subjective and based on the whim of the enforcer, or completely unenforceable. As such, they should not be made.

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Wait, is that a state law in Texas, or a local San Antonio law?

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It's a state bill.

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/billlookup ... ill=HB2003

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It's a bill that most states have put on their books after a 13 year-old girl in Missouri killed herself. It is a shitty law, because the argument that internet harassment drove her to suicide assumes that she wasn't likely to kill herself completely of her own accord - an assumption that, to be quite blunt, was rather shaky.

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I can see this going to the supreme court on first amendment basis.

And the SC will be all LOL WTF? Umad? l2troll. Ur case? TL;DR.

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This law needs its jurisdiction expanded to, oh, NATO, so I can report people that harass me online via /emote spam when they kill my partner in WoW arena. :(
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Aizle wrote:
Without detail on what she actually engaged in, it's impossible to really have much of a comment.


Actually it's very easy to comment.

Did she break any laws in regards to falsifying her identity or anything of that nature? Probably not. Predicated on this assumption, it's a stupid law. Why should you try to legislate "niceness". I'm all for it though, as Texas can show what a great example of failure really is.

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