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 | 14-year old Girl sues MySpace for $30 million | ibloggedthis.com | Mon Jun 19 | 1 |
| Mother of teen sues MySpace for $30 million | CNET | Tue Jun 20 | 6 |
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{"commentId":168893,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
When i read the title i figured myspace went out and assaulted a 14 year old girl, but once i am here i see it is a frivolous lawsuit. I wonder if she did sue her parents too for not keeping her safe and suing he church for god not keeping her safe. Myspace shouldn't be inconvenienced by her ow stupidity.
Rape is horrible offensive and wrong but myspace had nothing o do with it.
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#1 - Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:32 PM EDT{"commentId":168990,"authorDomain":"adamkemp"}
The real question, in my opinion, is why MySpace allows 14-year-olds to use their website. I think that's ridiculously irresponsible. I've been saying for a long time that it's a lawsuit waiting to happen, and here it is.
If this was an adult then I would be in complete agreement that this is a frivolous lawsuit, but the fact that it's a minor and she didn't do anything against their terms of service makes this a more serious case. It will still probably fail, but maybe it'll be a wakeup call to MySpace to take this stuff seriously.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":169086,"authorDomain":"philmiller278"}
I agree 14 is a little young. It is hard to believe that a 14 yr old is part of the target audience.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":169112,"authorDomain":"jonknee"}
Anyone can lie about their age so there isn't a way to weed out 14 year olds. By default MySpace makes profiles of 14 year olds private, so you need to know something about the person to be able to add them (or view any information).
MySpace lists things you can do to be safe, this wouldn't have happened if the girl was smart enough to follow them. She does not deserve a paycheck for being stupid, she just needs to learn to not talk to strangers.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":168897,"authorDomain":"yasmin"}
Why did she give a complete stranger her phone number? Rule number one of the internet: if you don't know the person in real life, don't ever, ever give them personal information! She doesn't deserve to be assaulted, but seriously these kids baffle me. Where were her parents?
What do they expect MySpace to do? It can't prevent new members from lying about their age. It can ask for credit card information to somehow filter the kiddies from the adults, but if that gets stolen then there's another lawsuit. Oh, and one can still lie.
It's all about responsibility, and lack there of. A 14 year-old girl has no business talking to a senior, and had her parents been more attentive then maybe this tragedy could have been prevented. Don't blame Myspace. Blame the parents. At least that's my two cents.
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- 5 votes
#2 - Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:37 PM EDT{"commentId":169759,"authorDomain":"allgood2"}
Her phone number? That was the least of her problems. She spent practically the whole evening with this fellow, and her parents didn't ask to meet him? ask where she was going? who she was going with? God, they might as well sue the school for letting her get into a car with a stranger.
The Statesman has a more comprehensive report, which includes this statement:
In May, after a series of e-mails and phone calls, he picked her up at school, took her out to eat and to a movie, then drove her to an apartment complex parking lot in South Austin, where he sexually assaulted her, police said. He was arrested May 19."
That's like 3-4 hrs of activity, before he sexually assaulted her; didn't her parents wonder why she didn't come home from school?
And what's with the constant refrain of, "The girl says a 19-year-old man lied in his profile about being a senior on a football team to gain her trust and phone number." Would this guy or any other guy that you don't know, and is significantly older than you be more trustworthy because they were on a football team (and note she doesn't say her football team, or mention any football team that she may have recognized and could verify his story against).
This isn't blaming the victim, because I hope the man gets major jail time; but the level of stupidity of the victim and her actions, makes it seem as if her parents and or school took no care in instructing her how to be safe; or who could be a predator. Either that or she was more than willing to give up the structures of safety for the possibility of status that dating a senior football player would have brought her. Either way, just dumb, dumb, dumb.
Call me old fashion, but I've never liked the idea of senior boys—football players or otherwise—dating freshman girls anyway. It has always struck me as a massively unfair power balance.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":168907,"authorDomain":"rollie"}
Can we just file a class action suit against all these so-called parents who feel that it's everyone else's responsibility to monitor their underage children? What kind of parent allows a 14-year-old girl to troll the internet unsupervised? Why don't you just take her downtown and leave her on the street corner for a couple of hours? This is the epitome of the "entitlement" society!!
{"commentId":168907,"threadId":"12684","contentId":"260592","authorDomain":"rollie"}
- 13 votes
#3 - Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:42 PM EDT{"commentId":182414,"authorDomain":"rutty"}
What kind of parent allows a 14-year-old girl to troll the internet unsupervised?
Well, 14 is the sort of age where many parents will give their kids some sort of freedom to do what they want, but that doesn't mean that they should abdicate responsibility for their own children.
This girl lied about her own age too and she's been very stupid. Myspace isn't at fault here - her parents and especially this guy that assaulted her are the only ones that need to look at themselves for blame. She should have been supervised but how many 14 year-olds are?
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{"commentId":168988,"authorDomain":"ilyanep"}
See it's these kind of kids that ruin it for the rest of us.
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#4 - Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:32 PM EDT{"commentId":169078,"authorDomain":"zaki"}
MySpace should counter-sue for $1337 just and ridicule this child whose parents forgot to give her the "all guys turn evil after you turn 13" speech.
{"commentId":169078,"threadId":"12684","contentId":"260592","authorDomain":"zaki"}
- 2 votes
#5 - Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:35 PM EDT{"commentId":172384,"authorDomain":"sphinx"}
I know I did. Turn evil, that is.
P.S. - $1337. Nice.
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- 1 vote
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