{"id":6189,"date":"2009-08-23T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T10:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/23\/internet-bully-jailed\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T10:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T10:16:43","slug":"internet-bully-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/internet-bully-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Bully Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A TEENAGER who posted a death threat on Facebook has become the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a social networking site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that Keeley Houghton is a bully in real life, and has been bullying one Emily Moore for a few years.  In fact, this is her third conviction.  She recently reified this behavior  on her facebook account and that seems to have been the evidence that put this behavior over the top in this latest round, in the eyes of British Law.<\/p>\n<p>This is not too surprising &#8230; that there are teenage bullies and that they do stoopid-shit &#8482; on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>What this does demonstrate is that in at least one legal system there may be no special lenience  for being an asshole on the internet as opposed to in real life.  This case is complicated because the perpetrator was an asshole in both contexts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,25970596-663,00.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TEENAGER who posted a death threat on Facebook has become the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a social networking site. It appears that Keeley Houghton is a bully in real life, and has been bullying one Emily Moore for a few years. In fact, this is her third conviction. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/internet-bully-jailed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet Bully Jailed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1BP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}