The Digital Murder of Your Ex. This article discusses one of the basest level of human behavior as it is expressed online by some very disturbed people.
"Unless you are a sociopath, or a person with some psychotic inability to control your violent emotions, it is doubtful that you would ever resort to murder to avenge your feelings at the demise of your marriage or relationship. However, a new form of murder has arisen in our digital age, and as long as it is done right, the perpetrator is not charged with any crime. They only have to live with their own conscience, or more aptly, their lack thereof.
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The Digital Murder of Your Ex. Foolish people, filled with rage and a hunger for
retribution, ruin not only their ex, their former inlaws, friends, but the children of
that partnership are "tarred with the same bytes". Strangely, these people neglect to consider the damage that they have done to themselves. Cyberspace is forever.
"Unless you are a sociopath, or a person with some psychotic inability to control your violent emotions, it is doubtful that you would ever resort to murder to avenge your feelings at the demise of your marriage or relationship. However, a new form of murder has arisen in our digital age, and as long as it is done right, the perpetrator is not charged with any crime. They only have to live with their own conscience, or more aptly, their lack thereof.
Instead of picking up a knife or a gun to seek retribution, people now choose the Internet as their weapon of choice. From a simple rant on YouTube to a custom website, scorned spouses resort not to the courts, but to their computer. There is clearly an increasing trend of estranged or former spouses or exes to digitally "kill" their former love online.
Just a few examples that I have seen: Imagine a husband whose wife was arrested for a crime, and another who had an abortion -- both things that no one except for them had any knowledge. Then, unbeknownst to the wife, the husband surreptitiously obtained her medical or court records, scanned them and posted them online. Or the husband, in need of medicine for which he would be utterly embarrassed for another person to know about, with his former spouse threatening or actually posting photos of his prescription bottles online -- clearly bearing his name in a newly created website photo gallery. How about the spouse that goes to the pharmacy and gets a printout of all of their partners' medicines, scans that and posts it online?"
"I believe in the First Amendment, but I do not believe in intentionally destroying lives. Former or even present spouses can be vicious and many will digitally kill their ex. I think it is despicable, but I doubt that it matters to those who have or will do it."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-a-barondess/the-digital-murder-of-you_b_954852.html?ncid=wsc-huffpost-cards-headline
The Digital Murder of Your Ex. Foolish people, filled with rage and a hunger for
retribution, ruin not only their ex, their former inlaws, friends, but the children of
that partnership are "tarred with the same bytes". Strangely, these people neglect to consider the damage that they have done to themselves. Cyberspace is forever.
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