Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (47196)	5/13/2002 11:48:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 82486

That’s why we have courts. The judge just ruled. Message 17463609

To: one_less who wrote (47196)	5/13/2002 11:51:59 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

One example that is fairly common is the person who repeatedly calls someone on the telephone even though they don’t say threatening things and the call receiver hangs up each time. That is an invasive action. It's a different thing. It's done in real time, directly to the person's house. Very different from a posting on an internet bulletin board. It is used as a means by some stalkers of making clear that they know where the person lives, and is treated as such. In this case, though, I don't know where Poet lives (I know the general area, but no more than that). Are you suggesting that nothing said via the internet could bring charges? No. Some words could be actionable. But they would have to fit into some of the narrow exceptions of words not entitled to first amendment protection. You are aware of the real person in this case to the extent of having claimed a long term relationship. Clearly the SI community sees it this way as well. Do you really suppose others would not? Actually, our relationship is entirely electronic. I have never met Poet in person, have never been to her house (don't know where it is, don't want to know). Other people on SI claim to have met her in person, but I haven't. So as to the "real person," I'm not sure what you mean. It's entirely possible that everything she has shared with me has been a fiction (she is, after all, a writer). I have no way of knowing. She has emailed me a few times from an email address which has a name, but whether that is her real name, her writing name (E has said that she writes under a different name than her married name, but I have no way of knowing), or something else entirely, I have no way of knowing. Nor do I particuarly care. My relationship is with the persona who has been posting here for the past several years. No more, no less.