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1. • katharinec

   Thanks for the article. It brought a lot of new context to this case for me.

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2. • yoda

   WTF?

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3. • yoda

   quick, guys, we all need to register under our real names...

   like that's gonna happen.

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4. • kdfrawg

   I don't know about that "scary" part. I have been watching online imposters screw up the lives of other people since 1981, when in happened repeatedly on the Compuserve CB Simulator, the first real chat room. People that misrepresent themselves off-line have to pay the consequences. So should the on-line liars.

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5. • calinazaret

   Everyone is so focused on the fact that this attack happened through myspace, but it makes no psychological difference whatsoever! The story I read last year about the girl said she was emotionally unstable and that this woman pushed her over the edge with her vicious, intentionally harmful lies. It doesn't matter whether it happened online or on mars or in person, this grown woman intentionally hurt a troubled young girl and caused her death. That, to me, in tantamount to feeding a diabetic insulin until they die. I don't understand why they can't prosecute her for manslaughter.

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6. • EVILmonkey

   @calinazaret
   I'm not sure I understand why it's been so hard to prosecute her either. I had read that before this all happened the woman and her family had some sort of standing in their community. Of course, they're pretty much pariahs now.

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