DISQUS

Jonathan Kleiman · 1 year ago

"What if you joined a Facebook group that was labeled illegal by the government, should you face criminal charges?"


Surely you jest. Nobody is talking about using that info alone to arrest people. Don't give big brother any ideas.

Palwinder Kaur · 1 year ago

Depends what kind of group is there. If it's really innappropriate and bothering somebody's life.then sure .but if it's only regular group made by college students...like party people or college friends or something they i don't think they should face criminal charges.

Christopher Rollyson · 1 year ago

Thanks for posing a great question. As virtual and actual worlds converge, we need to ask these things because said convergence proposes a new synthesis. Since you asked, I don't believe it will be clear cut for criminal groups because, in the U.S., I don't believe one can be condemned just by a mere association with a group. One in innocent until proven guilty of a crime. I'm uncertain of the law regarding "banned" groups. I would be shocked that affiliation itself would be a crime.

Regarding online, probably mere affiliation would not be grounds for prosecution, but the amount and type of activity would probably be taken into account. How many posts, replies and on what subject? How do they map to offline criminal activity?

Just my two cents!

Isabelle · 1 year ago

I once had an insane neighbor who was very over the top, and many came to me asking me why I didn't turn her in. With conviction I stated that, she was so bad off that it would be such an extreme short of time before authorities carted her away on their own authority, they didn't need me to point that out.

Sure enough and sadly enough that is what happened and there left was a boy without an Aunt and a mother who had recently passed. With all the energy that had been expended against this boy's Aunt, in the end at the age of nine, the community said he could not be rehabilitated and that he was damaged goods.

I don't know where I am going with this other than to say he had no family now, and his own country didn't care much for him either.

So do we hound people on the net. I am sick and tired of porn, cyber sex services. I find it unconsciounable that it still exists here on the internet. Having said this much great way to catch the bad guys cause eventually they need the real thing and they will get caught.