>LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman
>Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social
>network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
>
>Megan Meier, 13, hanged herself in her bedroom after being targeted in a MySpace
>hoax.
. . .
>Drew was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing
>protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict
>emotional distress on the girl.
. . .
>The indictment says MySpace members agree to abide by terms of service that
>include, among other things, not promoting information they know to be false or
>misleading; soliciting personal information from anyone under age 18 and not
>using information gathered from the Web site to "harass, abuse or harm other
>people."
Too bad the feds won't similarly prosecute spammers who violate terms
of service.
Seth |