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30 Jan 2008, 4:56 pm

Is/are making threats against someone and telling them to commit suicide and gifing tips on how to do it legal?

If not, please tell me what site to go to to report it.

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30 Jan 2008, 5:03 pm

Honestly, dude, it's the internet. If someone commits suicice because someone over the internet suggested that they do so they probably were a waste of oxygen anyway.

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30 Jan 2008, 5:11 pm

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30 Jan 2008, 5:24 pm

It is illegal and against the terms of service of practically every ISP and internet forum. You can report it to the moderator of a forum, and if the abuse is extreme enough, they can track down the person's ISP from the computer's IP address, and send an email to abuse@that.isp. ISPs have been known to disconnect people who are sufficiently abusive online.

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30 Jan 2008, 5:29 pm

sorry, I should have mentioned it is the admin of that board.

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30 Jan 2008, 5:29 pm

Pshh.. Who cares? Its the internet.

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30 Jan 2008, 5:44 pm

Stuff like that happens on the Internet, all the time.

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30 Jan 2008, 7:06 pm

It depends on whether it was asked for.... I'm guessing it wasn't but giving tips on how to do things legally for people who really wanted to opt out might be helpful.

If it's the admin of a board, you can report it to their ISP I guess or the police in their country. That's about the best you could do.

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30 Jan 2008, 7:55 pm

A whois service should be able to tell you who registered their domain name, and who's providing the webspace or connection they use.

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30 Jan 2008, 8:07 pm

Kalister1 wrote:

Pshh.. Who cares? Its the internet.

Agreed.

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30 Jan 2008, 8:20 pm

digger1 wrote:

sorry, I should have mentioned it is the admin of that board.

It shouldn't be legal. I dunno whether you can report them to the police under harassment or incitement law. Where does this admin live?

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30 Jan 2008, 11:41 pm

Report it, even if to your local police. It is not acceptable. Cyberbullying is a huge problem that needs to be stopped. If it happened in the schoolyard someone aka bully would have been suspended...

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30 Jan 2008, 11:52 pm

Berserker wrote:

Kalister1 wrote:

Pshh.. Who cares? Its the internet.

Agreed.

Do people suddenly stop being real people when they log onto the internet?

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31 Jan 2008, 1:03 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

Berserker wrote:

Kalister1 wrote:

Pshh.. Who cares? Its the internet.

Agreed.

Do people suddenly stop being real people when they log onto the internet?

I think we mostly imagine ourselves as an abstraction of who we are while on the internet. In turn, we can say incredibly horrible things. This leads one to conclude that its best not to take what people say on the internet to heart; the words that someone says are not what they would say in real life. Call it irrational, but I think thats the nature of many people on the internet.

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31 Jan 2008, 1:10 am

People have died, killed each other, raped and assaulted each other because of careless words on the internet.

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31 Jan 2008, 1:13 am

I know in the US it can be considered harrasing telecommunications

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