Who are the victims? A social media harassment case.

[Axtremus]

https://wapo.st/3S0E097

1. A teen died from suicide.
2. Her grieving mother posted on social media attributing the teen's suicide to bullying.
3. The mother did not name names, but four names came to the fore in response to the grieving mother's social media posts anyway.
4. Those four names are themselves teenagers, who then suffered "threats and harassment"
5. These four teens then sued the grieving mother for "defamation and slander."
6. Judge ordered the grieving mother to shut down her social media accounts
7. (The judge's order is supposedly sealed but it leaked anyway.)

[89th]

Based on your summary (since I can't read the article), that is very dumb.

We really need to get back to a "sticks and stones..." mentality.

[Jolly]

Bad decision.

[kluurs]

TikTok has erupted on this one - with hundreds of people taking up the mother's cause - and sharing information that the mother did not - i.e. doxing the individuals involved.

[Mik]

The problem is everyone can reach the crazies now, the ones who might actually do harm. Before they never would have heard of any of this.

[Jolly]

@kluurs said in Who are the victims? A social media harassment case.:

TikTok has erupted on this one - with hundreds of people taking up the mother's cause - and sharing information that the mother did not - i.e. doxing the individuals involved.

I have a problem with this doxing crap. In many cases, it amounts to anonymous slander or as Mik said, brings the crazies out.