Guilty verdict in MySpace suicide case could chill Internet speech
The jury convicted a Missouri mother on three counts, but not conspiracy
LOS ANGELES — A high-profile Internet legal case that just concluded here will have a chilling effect on users of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook if the verdict holds up on appeal, legal experts say. Full Story »
Posted by Dan Kennedy
A miserable excuse for journalism. Freedom of speech is not a free license to say anything you want without being accountable for your remarks, which is exactly the confusion of this story. Freedom of speech is responsible speech and can't be used to excuse the behavior of whoever perpetrated this fraud. Because whether it was mother or daughter, they did so with deliberate malice aforethought.