Agreed

...but there's just so many people doing similar. And, she just happened to not know how to conceal her identity when many people do, and more would learn how to do so if it became the law. I do think if she were a man things would have gone differently, but I also think a girl of thirteen who kills herself over a boy she's never met and has never confirmed to be who he says... shouldn't have been on the net to begin with. For starters, that boy trouble was certainly not her only problem. Second, kids are not taught anything more about the net than stranger danger. They're not taught that there's a million people out there who get off on trying to fuck with your head, or that sometimes they know you IRL and sometimes they don't know you at all. We're failing our kids on many levels these days, many levels just in education alone, but so many other ways as well. As I was mentioning in another post, kids need to be taught comprehensively about sex, about drugs, and how to approach the part of their life that's spent on the internet. And in all three cases, they need to be taught how to look out for themselves more than they need to be told to just tell an adult. Empowerment.

What the woman did was shameful, but a situation exists which also allowed her to affect a teen girl in a way that was the result of ignorance about the internet on the part of the girl. Yes, online bullying, stalking and the rest should be illegal, but not everyone can be traced.