{"id":4191,"date":"2008-01-10T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2017-11-03T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:28:26","slug":"junk-data-now-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/junk-data-now-a-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Data Now A Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors have saved the day as they look to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stcharles\/story\/582AAA9D12E587BC862573CB0013609E?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">gin up charges<\/a> for the woman whose online foolishness caused a girl&#8217;s suicide.  Well-played, you inventive devils in the executive branch!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal officials in Los Angeles are investigating whether it was fraud for someone to use a false identity on an Internet social network in a taunting blamed for the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri and federal prosecutors in St. Louis previously examined the circumstances but passed on trying to build a criminal case, saying no law seemed to apply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a software tester, I make up names and submit them through forms all the time.  Good to know that the federal government can now prosecute me for fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors have saved the day as they look to gin up charges for the woman whose online foolishness caused a girl&#8217;s suicide. Well-played, you inventive devils in the executive branch! Federal officials in Los Angeles are investigating whether it was fraud for someone to use a false identity on an Internet social network in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17222,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/17222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}