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Can this be considered internet harassment?

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CJstudent

Junior Member
I live in NJ, but person who is causing the problems is from NY.

I know that trolls on forum boards are very common and such, and I see them in many different forums or discussion boards. And in normal circumstances they are of little threat. However, I have a problem in a asian community forum, there is a persistent troll who doesn't leave when he gets banned, he continuingly make different accounts to get around the ban to make racist comments about asians. He hasn't harassed any specific person of yet (though he did make one or two libel statements about some people) or threatened anyone, but the fact that he keeps coming back and make racist comments is of concern. You won't believe how many times he's been banned and come back with a new account.

I wasn't sure if what he did was illegal or not, because his behavior didn't fit in any descriptions I've read about Internet Harassment, except for the fact that people told him stop many times (getting banned more times then being told to stop) yet he continuingly makes his group libel comments (Unfortunetly I also read that 'group libel' is not illegal). But I have a gut feeling that I can nail him with something, I just haven't found out what that is yet.
 


JETX

Senior Member
CJstudent said:
I wasn't sure if what he did was illegal or not, because his behavior didn't fit in any descriptions I've read about Internet Harassment
There is no such law as 'internet harassment'.... so, his conduct might be inconvenient... but it, in itself, is NOT illegal.
 

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