Here's a news story that should piss off any person with a rational mind. It's about privacy rights and the lack of respect to the privacy of others. Check this shit out:
"The world has officially gone mad. An Arkansas teenager is suing his mother after she moved to counter unsettling posts on his Facebook page by posting her own comments to the account and changing the password to block her son's access.
Although unwilling to share information about all the posts she deemed to be disturbing on her son's social networking page, Denise New of Arkadelphia said she took action after reading that 16-year-old Lane New had driven home at 95mph one evening after becoming angry with a girl.
“The things he was posting in Facebook would make any decent parent's eyes pop out and (their) jaw drop,” explained New in an AP report regarding her son's online activity. “He had been warned before about things he had been posting.”
Lane, clearly willing to go to extreme lengths to regain his original Facebook account (he has since opened another), has now filed a complaint with the local prosecutor's office accusing his mother of hacking into his account and posting slanderous comments.
According to the filing, Lane, who presently lives with his grandmother, wants the court to enforce a ruling whereby his mother would be prevented from having any further contact with him.
“Denise first hacked my Facebook and changed my password,” Lane outlined to the court. “She also changed the password to my email so I could not change it. She posted things that involve slander and personal facts about me life.”
Denise New, who claims she was just trying to be a good mother, faces possible charges of misdemeanor harassment. She also insists she did not hack her son's Facebook account and that the page was left open and unattended on her personal computer.
The complaint will be heard at a formal hearing on May 12."
Although not mentioned in this article, Denise New has a history of mental problems, mental problems that were the reason why Lane is now living with his grandmother because Denise "could not handle the boy." This should be looked at from a moral point of view than a quasi-"legal" one since the government is so motherfuckingly inefficient in regards to practically everything and has the tendency to illegally discriminate based on age. More on Obama's dick later. Sixteen-year-olds are not as stupid as liberals would like to think.
Reasons why this whole thing is ridiculous:
1. Denise New changed the password to Lane's account. This locked Lane out of his own account and is literally stealing something from someone else. This is illegal and Denise should be the one behind bars for invasion of privacy, slander, and probably grand theft as well. Why would any reasonable individual be on Denise's side?
2. As if that was not enough, Denise used her own judgment to deem what was appropriate enough to not be deleted or changed. So he wrote about reckless driving. Solution? Censor his Facebook account! Apart from the posting, reckless driving and Facebook are completely separate things. Maybe Denise will just piss him off more and he'll end up driving his car into a tree. Any halfway-decent parent would ignore anything to do with Facebook in the situation and instead teach him how to drive defensively to avoid getting into a terrifying accident like the kind they show you at Driver's Ed.
3. "Any decent parent?" So now all of the sudden Denise declares herself God and thinks she has the right to decide who is a "decent parent?" A decent parent is someone who has respect for their kids' privacy and doesn't censor out the bad aspects of life by rose-tinting their world, taking all their rights as a human being away. No wonder Lane refers to his mother as "Denise." I wouldn't respect a parent who disrespected me. The optimal scenario would be a parent-child relationship in which both parties respect each other as equals (especially with older kids like Lane here) and solve conflicts together.
4. She slandered him. Denise slandered Lane. How could anyone who is not a moron support this part of the argument for Denise? Saying lies about a person that make them look bad is always wrong. I would assume that she probably posted things that she thought would make him look good after mistakenly believing that Lane tarnished his own reputation by announcing to the world his insecurity and temporary impairment of judgment. Now we also are quick to judge a reckless driver, and I'll admit I didn't think of it either, it's not specified where he was driving. Maybe he was on a county road with very little traffic at night (although driving that fast in the dark is not a good idea, even with high beams). I push my car over 120mph but only on highways with clear visibility during the daytime when there is hardly any traffic. There are probably mitigating factors that we don't know about yet but I think it's stupid that the issue here is hijacking someone's email account instead of the reckless driving at night.
5. This whole thing started at Lane's grandmother's house, where he lives and has been for 10 years because Denise was mentally unstable. It was not even her computer! Or her house! But that doesn't matter; Lane has a right to his privacy and I can see the American Civil Liberties Union stepping in on his behalf. Just because someone forgets to log out of their email doesn't mean it's in the public domain. The morally correct thing to do would have been for Denise to log out of Lane's account instead of looking at his private mail, a major breach of privacy. When I see that someone has forgotten to log out and do what Jesus would have done if they had computers back then: Log out. The Internet has now been declared to be more overdramatic than happy hour at a costume-themed gay bar with alcopops and crystal methamphetamine on the house in celebration of the changing the meaning of a word. And we have the fucking social networking systems causing all sorts of drama you can think of and some you cannot.
What the hell is Twitter even for?
-@llison
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