What is cyber stalking?

[xmas74]

I'm wondering what you consider cyber stalking? In a conversation in a different thread it was mentioned that a blog entry seems to entail cyber stalking. The entry in question is about the rape of a friend and the not guilty verdict of the defendant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024084119

The blog has been hacked numerous times directly after the rape entry was written. Others have since written about the case and have received phone calls with thinly veiled threats. Some of the threats have been bad enough that the police have been contacted, though no one can prove who is making the threats.

So, is a blog entry cyber stalking? Is an article published online by a newspaper cyber stalking? Is my writing about this considered cyber stalking?

[boston bean]

1. If physical threats are being made, I think it's safe to say, it is cyber stalking.

[xmas74]

2. There were no physical threats made in the blog entry

and no physical threats made in any posts by the victim's friends. The threats were made by the perp's friends.

So, cyber stalking consists of physical threats?

[boston bean]

3. umm who ever is making threatening physical threats is cyberstalking

imho. It is done to place fear into a persons mind. It is especially concerning if the person who is being threatened can be personally identified.

[xmas74]

5. The physical threats are made not via cyber stalking

but through phone calls to friends. Threats have also been made on the victim's livelihood-she is currently suspended from her job and is now awaiting what is a probable termination. Why? Because the perp's friends have connections with the local school board.

In the other thread I've been informed that what I'm doing is cyber stalking. (Talking about a rape case and bringing attention to it, asking that others bring attention to it.) According to local pd it is absolutely NOT cyber stalking. I'm just trying to find out what is and what is not cyber stalking.

[boston bean]

8. I don't think what you are doing is cyberstalking.

I'm only answering what I thought you were asking.

I haven't followed this, but I did just read the KC link and that is a pretty ugly set of events. Why did the military take over the case, and should they have. Can he be tried again by the civilian courts?

[xmas74]

9. I don't think he can.

The military often takes DWI cases from the county, since sentences tend to be higher on base with a conviction. I don't know why this case was taken by the military, except that supposedly a sentence would be longer if convicted.

[NaturalHigh]

4. From your post:

"Please read this, respond to the post (even if you're just kicking it) and repost on your FB, Google+, Twitter, etc. Hell, get Anonymous' attention. The whole case is a pile of crap and it just keeps getting kicked under the carpet. So please, keep this kicked."

Asking Anonymous to get involved (presumably to do some sort of damage) and making sure this guy is followed for the rest of his life despite a not guilty verdict comes pretty close to qualifying a cyber-stalking, IMO.

Just curious...if someone were to post your actual information on multiple forums, contacting your commanding officer, basically asking that you be harrassed (Hell, get Anonymous' attention), would that be okay with you?

Oh: And Boman is not a "perp." He was acquitted.

[xmas74]

6. The police department says it's public information

and now an article from the KC Star brings it further into the public eye. So, by what you're saying, not only am I responsible for cyber stalking but the KC Star would also be because not only did they publish the info via print but online and have an open comment section.

[NaturalHigh]

7. Actually, that's not what I'm saying.

What I am going to say at this point is that it's useless for us to continue this conversation. We have completely opposite points of view on everyone involved, including Boman, Phegley, and the Dawn blogger, and we are never going to agree.

Yes, all of their public information is out there. Do whatever with it.