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Father can be sued for son's Net abuse
December 5th 2000, 00:28 CET by Andy A father can be sued for damages after his son allegedly posted a sexually explicit photo, superimposed with a female classmate's face, on his web site, a Chicago judge has ruled. The girl is seeking at least $50,000 from the boy and his father. Judge Ward S. Arnold last week dismissed two counts against J. Bowen Palenske, but ruled he could be sued for not properly supervising his son's use of the family computer. Palenske's attorney argues that for him to be liable, it must be proved that the computer was a "dangerous article" which Palenske knew would be used to harm others. The girl's attorney claims Palenske should have known such use of the computer was possible, and even likely, as an older son had already created similar material. |
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AshRain/Gunp01nt: It's an urban legend :) |
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Whoopie, I was right :) |
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Of course the father is liable for the son. It's like that in most legal systems around the world. However, the real question should be how LARGE the actual damage done is. I mean, the girl will just become more popular, with all the jocks flocking to protect her, and the boy will become an even larger outcast than he probably already is. And you will NOT convince me that the girl actually suffers a psychological trauma from all this. In short, the boy, IMHO, has to pay a fine, yes, for Slander, or Libel, or whatever the exact US legalese term is, but there IS no objective damage, so he should not have to pay any damages. To me, the 50k claim just SCREAMS that no real damage has been suffered. The girl's parents are seeing a get-rich-quick scheme right before their eyes, probably. Also, why is it that everywhere you go, there always seem to be some dutch people :) Goed zo jongens, ga zo door! |
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#31, I mean, the girl will just become more popular, with all the jocks flocking to protect her, and the boy will become an even larger outcast than he probably already is. Either you do not remember high school very well, or this is a dutch thing:) Here in the U.S. the boy probably might be more of an outcast than before. But the girl is now a target by those "jocks" that you mentioned (not to mention others). They will not be lining up to protect her. (Okay, some will but not all will want to "protect" her.) She would be teased from weeks maybe months on end because of those nude pics of "her". The question then becomes, which one of those jocks would progress from teasing to actual physical harassment. Some people are pretty short-sighted when it comes to writing. They think that if the words don't kill then it is okay. Some never stop to think the influence that these words (or pictures) have on OTHER PEOPLE, not just the target of the joke. More often than not, it is those other people you have to worry about, especially if those other people are physically present five days a week, 7 hours per day. |
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legion: okay, let me expand a bit...the boy was probably an outcast already. Who do these outcasts target? The hugely popular girls. At least, that's what I THINK they'd do. And those hugely popular girls will only get more popular. Allow me to make an example. When I was in high school (two years ago ;) ) some guy from my class got a crush on a girl. The girl was pretty weird as well, but she was reasonably liked. The guy who got the crush was seen as a harmless nerd. What did the guy do? He started stalking the girl. He took pictures of her, he called her on the phone, and taped it when she said hi, but he never revealed it was him. He finally put all his stuff up on a site, and on Valentine's day, he sent a postcard, with on it the url to the site to a couple of key persons in school. The most popular guys, mostly. Someone told the girl about the site, and she almost had a nervous breakdown because she had been stalked. The guy knew almost everything about her, and he even printed her home address and phone number on the site. Result, however, the guy got completely outcasted, and the girl DID get more support, and became a lot more popular. But maybe that's a dutch thing? ;) |
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You missed one, gman. UAC will be like the Far Side of webcomics, if Gary Larson hadn't been such a pussy about rape humour.
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