Marc Riddell wrote:
This is a question for you legal eagles out there:
A town in Missouri (USA) has made on-line stalking and harassment a crime. I don't know much of the details, I just got it from CNN. But my question is, if the person charged an/or convicted of this crime were doing this in Wikipedia, or one of the other Projects, would the case involve us.
The first question that comes to my mind about this is one of jurisdiction. Your use of the word "town" suggests that we are not even talking about one of the major cities in Missouri. Small towns tend to have their rights to legislate defined by state law, and generally what they say cannot have have much effect beyond town limits. For a town to pursue a case of international cyberstalking could break the town's budget. Extradition for breach of a town's by-laws is an unlikely eventuality.
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