Just wondering...

I think, I'm getting the hang of it now -- I just love blogging! My blogsite is like a diary to me or like my own personal journal, where I can freely write about anything, any sentiment of my choosing. It's so cool because blogging is, I would say, the most important advancement in mass media in disseminating thoughts and information across peoples, races, and borders. I think blogging is plain radical... just awesome. This grassroots journalism is for people like me who have no publishing funds to print a book or magazine to let others know about my thoughts. I like to blog because all my creative juices in my head are saying "Let us flow." Search the truth, share the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Switching gears here really quickly, I was reading an old newspaper that happened to be in the magazine rack on the corner of my house. The news article was about a police probe about a possible hoax against a woman who was involved in MySpace postings. Because of her writings, Megan, 13 years old, committed suicide by hanging herself after she received cruel messages from a "fictional boy" who was supposed to be a 16-year old boy whom she met online and appeared to be her friend. This boy told Megan in MySpace that the world would be better off without her. Now there is another side to this story. A Missouri mayor Dardenne Prairie said that this is the first use ever of a town ordinance that was passed to prevent online harrassment, which in this case, was aimed to protect Lori Drew, the mother who posed as the 16-year old boy. Bear with me for a minute, this whole article threw me off balance. It might be an old issue, but I am trying to dissect whose freedom is being protected here. Is it the victim of harassment and fraudulent or the offenders?

Please don't get me wrong here. Yes, I am all for free speech and the might and beauty of our freedom. It is definitely good to have freedom of speech. I hope no one nor institution on this earth can ever take our free speech away. But wait a minute! In this new ordinance that is supposed to counter-attack the police probe on MySpace blogger, where is the accountability for the life of the victim? Where is the responsibility of the fraudulent MySpace account holder for what she has done? She posed as a teenager and caused another teenager's life? How about the morals and ethics of blogging? I am really wondering why the ordinance is trying to protect the killer instead of the victim. Just wondering...