MySpace Hoax Week 2

The Movie Absence of Malice and the MySpace hoax case can be compared in several ways. One way is that in both these cases individual lives were tampered with. Lori Drew and her daughter tampered with the life of the 13 year old girl Megan in the MySpace hoax and the DA and newspaper tampered with Michael Gallagher’s life in Absence of Malice. In my opinion the party’s in both the Absence of Malice and the MySpace case were wrongfully accused according to the law.

I feel that in the movie Absence of Malice Gallagher’s character shouldn’t have been accused of something just so the D A could get information out of him. They should have gone straight to the source without allowing the reporter to leak the information. They should have realized prior to the reporter leaking the information that it could affect an innocent person’s life.

In the case of the MySpace hoax Lori Drew was wrongfully accused for the charges of accessing computers without authorization, because there was no law against it. However, there should be some kind of law in place that protects innocent people from such abuse as creating a false MySpace account to hurt another individual. In the aspect of morals Lori Drew and her younger daughter were wrong. They should have known that what they were doing was not morally correct. One of the problems with society today is that nobody thinks about the consequences, they only think about how things will pan out to better themselves. In the MySpace case the parents of the girl that hung herself could have monitored her time on the account better since she was under the legal age of 14 to have a MySpace account. The parent’s stated they did monitor the account. If they were monitoring the account they should have prevented their daughter from having a relationship on the MySpace page.