a little more on dee law

basically this is an area of law that falls under the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nint...nstitution

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Which is just a long way of saying, you can not make an illegal law.

You can not make a law which says that John Smith no longer has rights. If the legislature were to pass such a bill, it could, but it would then be challenged and overturned by the judiciary.

Take a restaurant. If you go in and a customer-troll decides to throw crusts of bread at your head...he gets kicked out. Further, the management has to take every effort to personally intercede to protect your rights. That is the law. The management can't create a climate which furthers the violation of other's rights.

So, the internet is a kind of public mall or forum. Just like you can't go to a physical mall and throw spitballs at people or insult them or follow them or harass them, so it is the same in a cyber mall. Why? Because people retain the same basic rights to privacy and to non-interference in their affairs.

And this not only goes for personal trolls, but institutional ones as well. The fascist wing of the government can claim national security interests force them to monitor people, but it is a false claim. It is a clear violation of the Constitution and all these activities are strictly prohibited by law. The only people one can monitor are those committing crimes. You can't monitor an innocent person.

Why does a law get passed that is illegal? Well, if Yahoo had to provide enough security to ensure the rights of people, it would shut down.
It could not maintain its sites and staff them properly to retain order.

Now, in a perverse society, which puts money ahead of morality, we surrender and go, "ok, I guess we have to live with it." In a moral society, in the society envisioned by James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and the guys....morality must lead and guide society and money conform to it, not the other way around. Which means that, under that which constitutes America, Yahoo and the entire internet must conform its behavior to provide for the protections of individual rights. If that means the entire internet is overturned, then the entire internet should be overturned. This thing has only been around since the 90's. We are not slaves to it. Either it serves our Constitution, or its present form goes.

I absolutely believe the entire internet must conform to the same civility standards that would exist in a restaurant or in a mall...where you can't follow someone around and yell "hey a&&hole" at them, whenever you want. Or, the subtler forms of "hey a&&hole." It goes to intent. If someone has the intent to harass, annoy and interfere with other people, they are committing a crime. Period.

Folks can either come on board the ship of morality....or drive off the cliff of "me first, you can go to sc$ew."

Now we have an entire generation being raised in the culture of the five year olds who throw spitballs. Not good for any of us. Those kids are not going to stop with that, many of them will lie and cheat and steal their way through life. Not a good prospect for the future. This stuff is no longer a joke, it needs to reigned in.

I think there have already been a bunch of suicides from kids being bullied online. How many do we need before we say enough is enough? Wrong is wrong.