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A former US nurse who used internet chat rooms to urge depressed people to kill themselves incited two suicides - including a British man.
William Melchart-Dinkel surfed the internet posing as a depressed woman planning her own death and looking for others who might want to form a suicide pact.
He took part in online chats about suicide with up to 20 people and entered into fake suicide pacts with about 10, five of whom he believed killed themselves.
It also shows that what we post on the internet can be held against us in a court of law.
This is absolutely disgusting and I have very little to say about it all. I hope the person who prayed on the weak get's what's coming to them. (Karma can be a B word!) You do raise some interesting points about what people can/should be charged for online. I feel that if he was looking to actually do harm or make other people do harm to others/themselves, it should be treated as a regular crime.
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by BenIndaSun
It also shows that what we post on the internet can be held against us in a court of law.
and why shouldnt it ??????????
too many people now-adays seem to think that the internet ' isnt real ', or ' doesnt count ' , theft , libel , assault [ yes verbal and written attacks are assault under uk law ] incietement , consiracy etc etc are still criminal actions or civil torts and there should be no defence of " it was only on the internert "