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Lori Drew Gets Amicussed The infamous Lori Drew may have a nation full of detractors for her behavior in the Megan Meier case, but today she also has a couple of defenders other than her own lawyers. The Electronic Freedom Foundation has filed an amicus brief in her case agreeing with her lawyers' assertions that the daily violation of websites Terms of Service agreements either makes us all a national of criminally liable liars, or no one (including Lori Drew) is. I mean, the difference is that when I violate a TOS agreement, I'm not doing it to torment a teenage girl to the brink of suicide. Unfortunately, their logic is pretty convincing, so we're guessing she'll get away with it after all (minus a few lawyers' bills). Lucky us. [Reason]

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Lori Drew, the woman who created a fake MySpace profile to harass her daughter's friend, Megan Meier, is arguing, again, that she did nothing wrong. She's been indicted on computer fraud charges for violating MySpace's terms of service by creating a profile for the fake Josh Evans. Her lawyers are now arguing that if she can be prosecuted criminally under the laws which were originally designed to prosecute hackers, then anyone violating a website's Terms of Service agreement is a criminal. That seems bad for those of us with fake online identities, but everyone hates Lori Drew. Decisions, decisions. [Washington Post]

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drew no blood

Lori Drew Pleads Not Guilty In MySpace Suicide Case

Lori Drew, the worst person on the internet and the evildoer behind the MySpace hoax that arguably drove 13-year-old Megan Meier to suicide, has plead not guilty to charges of "internet fraud and conspiracy to inflict emotional distress," reports the L.A. Times. (For those of you who missed our exhaustive Meier coverage, Drew and an 18-year-old accomplice created a fake MySpace profile for a "Josh Evans" to torment Megan because of some slight towards Drew's daughter. After being rejected by Josh, Megan, who had a history of emotional problems, hung herself.) According to the Wall Street Journal, "The theory of the case seems to be that when Drew registered on MySpace she agreed to certain terms of service that required her to, among other things, provide 'truthful and accurate registration information' and 'refrain from promoting information that' she knew was
'false or misleading.'" More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Jessica
7,456 views, 157 comments

Latest by mmaertz: I do hope she is convicted. I'm not sure how she's able to stare at herself in the mirror every more »

the week that was

This Week Models Got Some Meat On Their Bones

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5:30 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Jessica
2,577 views, 4 comments

Latest by krismry: why do french rag cutters want to have walking skeletor children wearing their clothing ? this seems extremely alien to any more »

drew no blood

Lori Drew Indicted For Inviting Megan Meier To Touch Her "Snake"

Lori Drew has been indicted! (We totally want to marry the California courts today.) The Los Angeles feds have indicted the Missouri mom who masterminded the MySpace hoax that led 13-year-old Megan Meier to hang herself on charges of fraud and conspiracy in a case that probably has some... interesting First Amendment implications! But whatever, we are generally satisfied. Lori Drew, who created a fake MySpace profile for a 16-year-old named "Josh Evans" and used it to fuck with Megan in retaliation for ending her friendship with her daughter, has yet to speak up for herself, but every time we think, "Just leave her alone already," someone else speaks out with another testimonial to her shittiness. Today we learn a little more about "Josh"'s flirting technique. More »

3:30 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Moe
14,064 views, 126 comments

Latest by KIbbit: @RocketRockit: did well more »

clips

Megan Meier's MySpace Hoax Tormenter: "I Just Wanted It To End"

Remember back when MySpace tormenting mommy Lori Drew was the worst person in the world? Well, she still is, and here thanks to this morning's Good Morning America we have her 19-year-old co-conspirator Ashley Grills finally confirming it. If you never followed the story: it roughly goes: a thirteen-year-old hung herself after a distressing series of MySpace encounters with a boy she had been "friends" with; the suicide-inspiring boy turned out to be the fictional creation of Lori Drew, the mother of a former friend down the street, the insane saga eventually made its way into the New Yorker and eventually it seemed that maybe Ashley, not Lori, was the mastermind for the hoax. Here Ashley admits she writes the message that drove Megan to hang herself, but says she did it because she knew the joke had gone too far and wanted to erase the account. And why did she think it had gone too far? Because Lori Drew was trying to get her to set up a meeting with "Josh Evans" so that they could show up and laugh at her! [ABC News] More »

4:30 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Moe
15,225 views, 157 comments

Latest by sammysunshine: Wow, I don't even know what to say here. This is beyond bullying. This is child abuse. Plain and simple. I more »

news roundup

50 Cent Learns About Racism, Loses Interest

  • "I heard Obama speak. He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo, Obama!' 'I'm Obama to the end now, baby!," says 50 Cent, who originally supported Hillary Clinton. He has since "lost interest." [MTV]
  • One of the girls who tormented Megan Meier under the tutelage of evil mom Lori Drew is going to be on TV tomorow talking about how Lori turned out to be a crappy "mother figure." Um, yeah. [ABC]
  • You know how after 9/11 the government consolidated all these government functions into the Department of Homeland Security, which was probably an expensive waste of time? Well they are sort of doing that with all the regulatory agencies that are supposed to keep track of how much money all of these sophisticated "security" things are worth so the economy doesn't find itself with a hole the size of the Russian economy in it. It will take a long time, and probably not work. [WSJ]
  • Obama has his widest gap in the Gallup tracking poll of Democrats of any candidate since February. February! That is almost the month before last! [Wonkette]
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6:30 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Moe
2,199 views, 41 comments

Latest by nardo218: Probably black folks. Pennsylvania has the highest number of hate groups in the country. Not highest population, b/c it's a more »

jane's addiction

"90 Day Jane" Refuses To Justify Her Enormous Internet Joke

The story of 90DayJane, like the Britney period shots, is supposed to illustrate the seedy, soulless depths of the aughts' virtual culture. For those not familiar with it, on February 5, "90dayjane," a twenty-something pretty brunette resident of Los Angeles, put up a website on which she claimed she would off herself in 90 days. "This blog is not a cry for help," said Jane. "I'm not depressed and nothing extremely horrible has lead me to this decision. But, does it really have to?" Her site, naturally, became a sensation. Hundreds of thousands read it, and their comments, like those found within any other unregulated corner of the internet, were mostly appalling. "Post nudes first," one commenter advised. Then last week, the person behind 90 Day Jane killed the site — not herself — and told the world that the website had been a hoax — a "personal art piece" and that "It was meant for me and (what I ignorantly thought would be) a small number of people." More »

5:30 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Jessica
7,367 views, 98 comments

Latest by dudelookslikeadude: i get so cranky when artists say things like "im not a sociologist". wait. isnt that... exactly what you are? more »

falutin' faludi

Susan Faludi: Hillary Is Hated Not Because She's a Woman, But Because She's A Mother

Manhattan broadsheet the New York Observer scored quite the coup this week, signing up author Susan Faludi to take on the controversial new anthology about Hillary Clinton Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections By Women Writers. Derided by other critics as narcissistic (among other things), the book is not one of Faludi's favorites either: the feminist pundit describes it as "a good deal of convenient psychologizing, self-absorbed meanderings and unearned snipes" and all but calls it sexist, asking readers to imagine its conceit applied to male writers and a male presidential candidate: "Inside, we would find ruminations on the male candidate's doggy looks and flabby pectorals; musings on such 'revealing' traits as the candidate's lack of interest in backyard grilling, industrial arts and pets... We would hear a great deal about how the candidate made them feel about themselves as men and whether they could see their manhood reflected in the politician's testosterone displays. ... And we would hear virtually nothing about the candidate's stand on political issues." More »

2:30 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Jessica
2,785 views, 113 comments

Latest by itsdifferent4girls: @olivia2.0 @Rhody @Sarahmc Thanks for saying it for me. more »

kthanxdie

Seven Kids Hang Themselves In The Name Of "Networking"

How about a MySpace suicide story seven times more depressing than Megan Meier? Because there's been a spate of hangings in Brigend Wales. It starts with Dale Crole, a 20-year-old straight from juvi who hanged himself in a warehouse and was found a year ago. A friend of Dale's named David hung himself next, and a friend of David's went next, and four more boys followed before last Thursday, when 17-year-old Natsha Randall hung herself in her family basement. Now cops seem to be wondering whether Randall spearheaded some sort of vapid suicide cult. It's hard to say. All the members of the suicide ring had heavy internet habits. A story about Natasha "sxiwildchild"'s page on the social networking site bebo in the Daily Mail portrays her as one of those teenagers whose inability to distinguish right from wrong seems palpably traceable to an inability to distinguish real life from the internet. (The story notes that "Will you have sex with me?" is the fourth question she asks prospective friends on the site. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Moe
10,237 views, 136 comments

Latest by saturn: The problem of clusters of suicides among young people is certainly older than MySpace. Here's a letter to the NY more »