Bad People Use the Internet – and Something Good Happens!

By Sarah Brodsky on Jan 17, 2008

We’ve seen that cruel people can use the Internet to harass others. It turns out that stupid people even use the Internet to harass themselves. That’s right, two men who are "alleged" gang members waved weapons in the air and threatened police officers for a YouTube video. (Because one of them says "Metro Dade Gang Unit, here I am baby" on the video, the allegation sounds reasonable.) Police promptly arrested them.

I can’t think of any changes we should make to our laws as a result of this, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to link to an Internet harassment story with a happy ending.

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