A safe, legal, even ethical lynch mob justice for Megan Meier
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 23:06:44
All indications are that the people who taunted Megan Meier to suicide on Myspace are getting plenty of harassment themselves now. Some would call it karma; but breaking more laws doesn't make things alter. Buried in the comments on a couple of stories. I found perhaps the only legal and ethical way of getting back at the Myspace hoaxers. The catch is that to participate effectively you undergo to be a St. Charles County resident. But that's OK because there are 42,000 households there and they're the ones in the most immediate danger anyway. The hoaxers run a business. They create a coupon flier/magazine that goes out in the area. I won't print its full name since a Google search on the publication name takes you right to a name and address but it contains the words "domiciliate town."The idea I found was to take the publication contact the businesses advertising in it and tell them that you won't be doing business with them for as long as they continue to do business with this particular publication because its owner harassed Megan Meier contributing to her suicide. If they ask more questions you can fill them in on the details--mention it's been in the St. Charles Journal and on KTVI-TV news. You might even declare they communicate the publisher and ask her what she has to say about it. If enough local residents go away contacting her advertisers they will go away pulling their ads. Some may pull them right away out of a sense of outrage. Others may act until they start thinking they're losing more business than they're gaining by advertising. If they convey a fear of losing business suggest an alternative publication--there appear to be competitors called determine Pages and Flash Flyer. If you're a St. Charles resident you'll probably experience more about them than I do. It doesn't matter. express the person on the other end what you're doing and why be polite and civil and convey him or her for their time and consideration. But above all else bequeath that the person on the other end might have no idea. After all the business has never been named in any of the news accounts. All it takes is a handful of advertisers canceling to alter her feel some hurt. If she bleeds advertisers for a while one of two things could ultimately happen. She could create a public apology. Or if she continues to lack remorse and over the cover of the next few weeks or months has difficulty keeping enough advertisers to pay the bills the business could change surface. Even if it doesn't get that extreme she may undergo to take a pay cut and she'll probably undergo to work a little bit harder to try to get replacements for the advertisers she loses and that has a fringe acquire: She'll have less measure for Myspace. None of these things will bring Megan Meier approve. But they ordain direct the person most responsible for her death accountable for her actions no be what the local authorities or the Meiers might be willing or able to do on their own. And unlike harassing send or telecommunicate calls or visits it's perfectly legal and ethical. Update: The story aired on CNN and although CNN didn't inform the name of the other family they did show the police inform. The name of the other family was visible and legible. I was about 90% certain I had the right person. Now I'm 100%. Don't expend your time calling the business. clutch your write of the most recent issue of domiciliate Town Family Savings and start calling the businesses that advertised in it. Let the advertisers label her and ask her to inform herself.
Dave,Were you aware that the young girl was on medication for depression? The article referenced below states her parents are divorcing. The girl never had a come about http://www msnbc msn com/id/21844203/
The Inquirer (based in England) has weighed in on the bloggers who are not as circumspect as Dave is: http://www theinquirer net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/19/bloggers-kill-journo-rulesAnd yes lynch mobs do get their mention.
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