Watch out, warns Eric Scheie: it can be a cover for legal efforts to silence online critics, as with a religious group leader’s nastygram aimed at blogger Joy McCann (Little Miss Attila).
Watch out, warns Eric Scheie: it can be a cover for legal efforts to silence online critics, as with a religious group leader’s nastygram aimed at blogger Joy McCann (Little Miss Attila).
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i never even understood the term.
Like when i was a kid, bullying was beating a kid up for his lunch money. or giving a kid a swirly because it was funny.
so how does that even translate into just words?
Laws that infringe on the right to free speech can be used to prohibit someone from exercising their right to free speech?
Huh.
Surprising.
[…] VII: Overlawyered points out that the term “cyber-bullying” can be misused, when placed in the hands of unscrupulous […]