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Showing posts with label Case law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Case law. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Sexual Assualt, Social Media and Illinois Case Law - Internet History, Bulletin Board System, FIDO, DYM
While maintaining this blog, the frequency that "Assault", and more spefically "(Aggravated) Criminal Sexual Assault" occured became shocking, particularly as it relates to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Searches for these keywords at Illinois Courts, Recent Appellate Court Opinions, yeilded 43 results.
Searches for "aggravated criminal sexual assault" or "predatory criminal sexual assault" yeilded 53 opinoins.
Searching Illinois 7th Circuit Decisions at Google Scholar for "Facebook", yeilded 47 results, while seaching 2013 Illinois Appelate Decisions for the same keyword only retunred 49 decisions.
Searching 2013 Appelate decisions for MySpace only returned 3 decisions, while searching for 2013 Federal Court cases rertuned 118.
The wide discrepancy in the numbers is due largely to the time it takes for cases to find their way through the appeals process. Case law is accumulating daily as Illinois slowly but surely builds its library of Internet Case Law.
- (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) (was in Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Nov 1998 OJJDP: U.S. Department of Justice)
• Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest children
-CNN Specials Transcript #454-Thieves of Childhood.
This is a evolving area of the law and the decisions continue to appear daily. We are writing history as it happens and we shall endeavor to report and comment on this area of law right here at Illinois Social Media Law.
1.) History of the Intetnet, http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet
Searches for "aggravated criminal sexual assault" or "predatory criminal sexual assault" yeilded 53 opinoins.
Searching Illinois 7th Circuit Decisions at Google Scholar for "Facebook", yeilded 47 results, while seaching 2013 Illinois Appelate Decisions for the same keyword only retunred 49 decisions.
Searching 2013 Appelate decisions for MySpace only returned 3 decisions, while searching for 2013 Federal Court cases rertuned 118.
The wide discrepancy in the numbers is due largely to the time it takes for cases to find their way through the appeals process. Case law is accumulating daily as Illinois slowly but surely builds its library of Internet Case Law.
But examining child Molester statistics overall returns some fascinating anomalies.
• "There are 400,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, and an estimated 80 to 100,000 of them are missing. They're supposed to be registered, but we don't know where they are and we don't know where they're living.- Ernie Allen, President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrento co-anchor Hannah Storm on The Early Show- (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) (was in Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Nov 1998 OJJDP: U.S. Department of Justice)
• Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest children
-CNN Specials Transcript #454-Thieves of Childhood.
• Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest childrener-CNN Specials Transcript #454-Thieves of Childhood.
The percentage of child molestation and sexual assault cases in the social media sites under discussion averages near 33%, with a few points either way. Why the disparity?
Ease of use, the likelihood of getting away with the crime, and relative anonymity are just a few of the reasons that continue to plague criminal justice enforcement. The Internet, here typified by Facebook, and to a lesser extent MySpace and Twitter has been the Wild, Wild West since it's inception in the mid eighties. The Author ran a Bulletin Board System, Publisher Information Service, dedicated to IBM PC Based Desktop Publishing, with a specialty in Ventura Publisher from 1983 until 1993 and saw these developments personally.
While 1995 is widely seen as the beginning of the Internet in Popular use, its pre-cursors, UseNet, FidoNet and MetroNet were going strong in the mid 1980's. 1. The Dial-Your-Match (DYM) System met with greeat success and allowed the sexual predator easy pickings. This was followed up by Compuserve, the Source, and later American On Line. This piece is the logical child of those early days. While technology has vastly improved, the law is just starting to catch up, and still has a long way to go.
Ease of use, the likelihood of getting away with the crime, and relative anonymity are just a few of the reasons that continue to plague criminal justice enforcement. The Internet, here typified by Facebook, and to a lesser extent MySpace and Twitter has been the Wild, Wild West since it's inception in the mid eighties. The Author ran a Bulletin Board System, Publisher Information Service, dedicated to IBM PC Based Desktop Publishing, with a specialty in Ventura Publisher from 1983 until 1993 and saw these developments personally.
While 1995 is widely seen as the beginning of the Internet in Popular use, its pre-cursors, UseNet, FidoNet and MetroNet were going strong in the mid 1980's. 1. The Dial-Your-Match (DYM) System met with greeat success and allowed the sexual predator easy pickings. This was followed up by Compuserve, the Source, and later American On Line. This piece is the logical child of those early days. While technology has vastly improved, the law is just starting to catch up, and still has a long way to go.
This is a evolving area of the law and the decisions continue to appear daily. We are writing history as it happens and we shall endeavor to report and comment on this area of law right here at Illinois Social Media Law.
1.) History of the Intetnet, http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Democracy - Muslim Style
Egyptian government and military forces are struggling to dampen violence this evening, after a day of clashes between the army and supporters of Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi reportedly killed over 230 protesters and43 police officers.
Cairo is urging Morsi supporters to “listen to the voice of reason” and cease engaging in violence. Officials have also declared a one-month state of emergency and imposed a curfew in major cities. The Washington Post contextualized the provisionstate of emergency as not particularly uncommon in Egypt:
These events speak for themselved, little comment is needed.
Law and Order Egyptian Style
In the familiar pattern, the Western media are focused on the military raids against Islamic supremacists in Egypt but ignoring the latter’s use of violence and of women and children as human shields. After all, the “protesters” say they are “peaceful.”
When not similarly ignored, Islamic supremacist aggression against Egypt’s Christians — which was a prominent feature of Muslim Brotherhood governance — is disingenuously reported. Take this AFP report of the fact that the Brotherhood and its allies are torching Coptic churches. The AFP endeavors to exculpate the Islamic supremacists by editorializing, in the report, that these were “reprisal” attacks. But the Brotherhood was not ousted by the minority Copts. To be sure, the Copts far prefer to take their chances with a largely secular, technocratic government backed by the armed forces than the rampant persecution they endured while the Brotherhood was running the show. But it is the army, not the Copts, who ejected Morsi. AFP tries to obscure this by recounting that “the Coptic church backed Morsi’s removal, with Patriarch [i.e., Pope] Tawadros II appearing alongside army chief General Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the military coup.” As I observed in writing about the coup in the August 5 edition of National Review, however, Pope Tawadros was hardly alone — General Sisi also gathered by his side significant Islamic supremacist leaders: Grand Mufti Ahmed al-Tayeb of al-Azhar University and leaders of the Salafist al-Nour party (in addition to prominent secularists).
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/355761/peaceful-brotherhood-protesters-torching-coptic-christian-churches-andrew-c-mccarthy
When not similarly ignored, Islamic supremacist aggression against Egypt’s Christians — which was a prominent feature of Muslim Brotherhood governance — is disingenuously reported. Take this AFP report of the fact that the Brotherhood and its allies are torching Coptic churches. The AFP endeavors to exculpate the Islamic supremacists by editorializing, in the report, that these were “reprisal” attacks. But the Brotherhood was not ousted by the minority Copts. To be sure, the Copts far prefer to take their chances with a largely secular, technocratic government backed by the armed forces than the rampant persecution they endured while the Brotherhood was running the show. But it is the army, not the Copts, who ejected Morsi. AFP tries to obscure this by recounting that “the Coptic church backed Morsi’s removal, with Patriarch [i.e., Pope] Tawadros II appearing alongside army chief General Fattah al-Sisi as he announced the military coup.” As I observed in writing about the coup in the August 5 edition of National Review, however, Pope Tawadros was hardly alone — General Sisi also gathered by his side significant Islamic supremacist leaders: Grand Mufti Ahmed al-Tayeb of al-Azhar University and leaders of the Salafist al-Nour party (in addition to prominent secularists).
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/355761/peaceful-brotherhood-protesters-torching-coptic-christian-churches-andrew-c-mccarthy
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