Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook.

Re:Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook. by tzs on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:14PM (#2546411)

If you draw some line and say "we are only going to work on crimes more serious than this", you are in effect saying that anyone is free to do the crimes that don't make the cut.

That would be a pretty crappy society in which to live. It's much better to devote some effort to the less serious crimes too. The more serious ones should be the priority.

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Re:Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook. by mentat on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:40PM (#2546484)

No, it would be a great society in which to live because you'd have a reasonable number of crimes and you'd have a fair chance of knowing if you were committing them. As it stands now there are an indeterminate amount of crimes specified in such a way that if you upset someone representing the state they will find one to apply to you.

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Re:Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook. by Yzupnick on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:52PM (#2546530)

Something Ayn Rand predicted.

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Re:Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook. by knshaum on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:37PM (#2546470)

Reasonable point; but I think one should draw a line between things that obviously are crimes, and offenses that stretch the definition of 'crime' beyond recognition, as in this case.

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Re:Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook. by mike_esspe on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:40PM (#2546487)

Speech is not a crime.

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