I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
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I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
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Re: I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
#2Seems like a great opportunity for a company that "bounty hunts" cyberstalkers - tracks them down then physically intimidates them for you.
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#3"When I got a Facebook account in 2006 he found me again and, not wanting to be rude, I accepted his friend request."
It's hard to understand why, having previously already blocked this person elsewhere, they would accept a friend request from them. I suppose now, 10 years later, one can hope that people exact greater control over their online social networks.
Re: I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
#4Seems like a great opportunity for a company that "bounty hunts" cyberstalkers - tracks them down then physically intimidates them for you.
Maybe they won't even charge for it, just maybe call on you someday - and that day may never come - but maybe, they'll call upon you to do a service for them. But until that day, you can just accept their justice as a gift.
Re: I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
#5Most of these amount to libel, at worst. File suit.
There are excellent reasons for police to be uninvolved in what amounts to people saying mean things, even if those mean things are directed at your employer or friends.
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#6End result: The thing resolved itself, likely because someone else sued her stalker.
I have to wonder though: If her local police was ignorant of actual laws applying to her case, as she indicated, couldn't she just tell the officers under which exact laws she is making a complaint?
Further, if the local police is generally ignorant and incompetent, what would her chances for success be in using a lawyer to try and identify appropiate channels and contacting them?
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#7"When I got a Facebook account in 2006 he found me again and, not wanting to be rude, I accepted his friend request." It's hard to understand why, having previously already blocked this person elsewhere, they would accept a friend request from them. I suppose now, 10 years later, one can hope that people exact greater control over their online social networks.
We all make mistakes, especially when a situation does not seem particularly bad/urgent yet.
Re: I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
#8There should be laws against this. A judge should be able to tell when a behavior is harassment, and forbid the harasser from contacting the person again with more severe charges if he does again.
Re: I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
#9End result: The thing resolved itself, likely because someone else sued her stalker. I have to wonder though: If her local police was ignorant of actual laws applying to her case, as she indicated, couldn't she just tell the officers under which exact laws she is making a complaint? Further, if the local police is generally ignorant and incompetent, what would her chances for success be in using a lawyer to try and i…
Based on that excerpt, that NY statute looks pretty clearly unconstitutional. It also appears to criminalize, eg, vanilla customer complaints, as long as someone asked them not to. I'm not surprised the police weren't interested.
Edit: she leaves out the condition "for no legitimate purpose", which makes it plausibly constitutional, but nearly unprosecutable.
https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2-PenalLaw/120/120-45%28...
Re: I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12
#10There should be laws against this. A judge should be able to tell when a behavior is harassment, and forbid the harasser from contacting the person again with more severe charges if he does again.
There are – that's a restraining order.