March 20th, 2007
Students expelled for online bullying:
Four Edmonton junior high students have been expelled and another 20 have been suspended after derogatory comments were posted about 2 of their teachers on Nexopia. The four that were expelled set up fake profiles in the teachers’ names allowing the others to leave disparaging comments.
Karen Wilson, president of Alberta […]
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March 14th, 2007
MySpace policing fake cop sites:
MySpace does, that’s who.
It seems that MySpace is going to be cracking down on the fake police MySpaces. 6 out of 16 law enforcement MySpaces were fakes.
The fake ones claimed to belong to the NYPD, the Fairfax County Police, the NJ State Troopers, and the Coral Gables Police Department […]
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February 25th, 2007
Fake Shawn works MySpace:
Apparently some jackass thought it would be funny to post a fake MySpace of kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck. For those of you in subterranean mineral dwelling (that’s the PC term for living under a rock) Shawn Hornbeck was the kidnapped, held captive, and sexually assaulted for 4-years by scumbag Michael J Devlin.
“Their […]
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February 21st, 2007
Police Arrest H.S. Sophomore Over Bogus MySpace Page:
A 15-year-old from Poteet High School in Mesquite, Texas was arrested after posting a fake MySpace of one of his teachers. He used his science teacher’s yearbook photo and then posted derogatory comments about the teacher. The police didn’t think it was that funny.
When Mesquite police notified MySpace […]
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February 14th, 2007
Lawsuits Filed After Students Create Fake MySpace Page About Assistant Principal:
Back in September I posted about Assistant Principal Anna Draker of Clark High School in San Antonio, Texas. She sued not only the students bit also the parents of the students who made a fake MySpace of her. According to the first article the MySpace […]
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February 11th, 2007
Lawrence officers dismissed for lurid Myspace page:
The other day I posted about the “unofficial” Lawrence, Mass. PD MySpace. When I posted that I said that if it turns out that members of the Lawrence PD made that MySpace that they would be so fired. It turns out I was right.
Two auxiliary officers from the Lawrence […]
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February 8th, 2007
Authorities seek creator of fake Lawrence Police Department Web site:
Some assclowns from Lawrence Massachusetts thought it would be funny if they set up an “unofficial” MySpace of the Lawrence Police Dept. complete with porn chicks dressed as police along with the official insignia of the Lawrence PD. As expected the real Lawrence PD is pissed […]
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January 31st, 2007
Lawsuit Involving Fake MySpace Page In Tipton County:
Chris Barnett of Brighton High School in Brighton Tenn. made a fake MySpace of his assistant principal. He posted about the assistant principal acting inapropriately around female students. Barnett was then thrown out of school. Did his parents admonish him for not finding a more reasonable way to […]
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January 26th, 2007
Five Plano Senior High athletes kicked off teams:
Short article so I’m just going to do a C&P.
Four baseball players and a track team member at Plano Senior High School have been removed from their teams after district administrators learned of a MySpace.com profile in baseball coach David Allen’s name.
The Web site, which was […]
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December 19th, 2006
MySpace impersonator pleads guilty to criminal libel:
The saga of Billy Johnson, the Colorado teacher who was improperly impersonated on MySpace, continues as the impersonator, Todd Gugat, pleads guilty to criminal libel�
A former Fruita Monument High School student admitted Thursday to a Mesa County magistrate that he feloniously impersonated one of his former teachers on the […]
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December 18th, 2006
Actor Joe Don Baker Sues Over MySpace Posting:
Joe Dan Baker, who starred in the 1973 classic Walking Tall, is suing an unnamed defendant over a fake MySpace�
Baker filed his lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming infringement of right of publicity and misappropriation of likeness. It asks for unspecified general, special and punitive damages.
The […]
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December 4th, 2006
False Website Leads To Charges:
STORRS — – Two University of Connecticut students have been arrested after one of them set up a fictitious website about a third person on MySpace.com, police said Monday.
Martin H. Gonzalez of Hartford was arrested on a warrant about 6:30 p.m. Sunday charging him with criminal impersonation and second-degree harassment, police […]
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October 26th, 2006
I originally posted about the plight of Billy Johnson here and here. He’s the teacher from Fruita Monument High School in Grand Junction Colorado who had a student improperly impersonate him on MySpace and almost lost his job because of it. The suspect had been charged with criminal libel. Well now the suspect has been […]
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October 25th, 2006
Cops: Teen Posed As Teacher On MySpace:
(CBS/AP) FARMINGTON, Conn. Police have arrested a 13-year-old Farmington girl, accusing her of creating an Internet account in the name of a public school teacher.
Police said the girl has been charged with criminal impersonation for posting a Myspace.com Internet message board account in the name of the teacher without […]
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September 22nd, 2006
Principal Sues Students Over MySpace Pictures:
A vice principal from a San Antonio school is suing some of her students for making a derogatory MySpace about her but it doesn’t end there…
A fake web page on the website, myspace.com, has some Northside ISD students in legal trouble, News 4 WOAI learned Wednesday. The teens are accused […]
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