Lori Drew Verdict Finally Overturned
By Larry Downes on August 31, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I write extensively in Chapter 8 of my new book,The Laws of Disruption, about the madness of prosecuting Lori Drew, a Missouri woman, for her participation in a cruel MySpace hoax that contributed to the suicide of a 13 year-old girl named Megan Meier. Drew's behavior aside, the decision by federal prosecutors to charge her under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was a cynical effort to appease an angry mob of bloggers and news media who wanted to see blood spilled. Read more about Lori Drew Verdict Finally Overturned