An Offensive post on Facebook can get you Jail time …are we in trouble

An Offensive post on Facebook can get you Jail time …are we in trouble
January 11,2012
ths staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, As a Village Ridgewood has had its up and downs with Facebook . We have learned that “The gratification given by a person’s brain when their Facebook post is viewed, liked and commented on has proven to be comparable in pleasure to the response from food and sex, according to a recent Harvard University study.( https://theridgewoodblog.net/posting-views-on-facebook-as-gratifying-as-sex-and-food/)

Our BOE even went from looking to ban Facebook or at lest ,Anthony Orsini Principle of Benjamin Franklin Middle School did to setting up its own Facebook page within weeks .( https://theridgewoodblog.net/now-the-ridgewood-school-district-wants-a-facebook-page/ )

Now a growing number of jurisdictions in clear violation of the First Amendment including Vernon County, Wisconsin,are implementing so-called cyber-bullying laws. A Vernon County ordinance makes it a crime to “send information to another person by electronic means with the intent to annoy, offend, demean, ridicule, degrade, belittle, disparage, or humiliate any person.” There is an exception if the information serves a “legitimate purpose.” (https://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/05/jail-time-for-offensive-facebook-postings/)

Wow does this open a can of worms ,experience has taught me that unless you do nothing what so ever , virtually everything you do can “offend ” someone .And to make things even better anyone who forwards an email that winds up in the mailbox of someone offended by it ie …If you’re a Vikings fan, be careful what you say about the Packers—particularly this weekend—lest your email wind up in Vernon County and you wind up in jail.( https://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/05/jail-time-for-offensive-facebook-postings/ )

Whats next first Facebook ,then …blogs?

By the way don’t get any ideas ,if it were to come to jail time , this blog would gladly release all the posts and all comments and perhaps even the names of  the commentators that have until know remained for what ever reason unpublished ….ouch !