MySpace Diatribe Brings Death Threats

GAPrincess · Apr 11, 2009

MySpace Diatribe Brings Death Threats

The case, California's first on the issue, concerns a University of California student who ranted on her MySpace account about how much she hated her hometown of Coalinga in the Central Valley. The Coalinga Record, the local newspaper, published Cynthia Moreno's "Ode." She sued the paper for invasion of privacy after members of the local community allegedly ran her family out of town and threatened to kill them.
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The state appeals court, however, ruled she had no privacy rights to her internet speech. "Here, Cynthia publicized her opinions about Coalinga by posting the Ode on MySpace.com, a hugely popular internet site," the 5th District Court of Appeal wrote. "Cynthia's affirmative act made her article available to any person with a computer and thus opened it to the public eye. Under these circumstances, no reasonable person would have had an expectation of privacy regarding the published material."

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Now this is some crazy mess. When will people learn that MYSPACE is not their personal diary. Anything posted on the internet becomes part of the public domain.

LandShark · Apr 11, 2009

well since i have a daughter that uses myspace it does and I demand that she use ablility to keep her profile PRIVATE and unavaliable to the general public...Only me and her friends from church are able to view her profile...computers are only as smart as the person using them..

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