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Robey
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Posted 02-14-03 07:11 AM
http://www.internetprivacyfordummie...artid=20&page=1
Cyberstalker: Someone who uses the Internet (this may include email, your instant messenger, even hacking into your machine) to invade your privacy, harass you and possibly even threaten you with physical harm. Cyberstalkers sometimes make the leap from stalking victims in cyberspace to harassing them by telephone, snail mail and sometimes even in person (at which point the cyberstalker has crossed the line and become a cyberpredator).
Cyberpredator: Someone who uses the Internet to find out as much as he can about you (your real name, address, phone number, where you work, anything and everything else he can) and uses that information to invade your offline world and eventually make physical contact with you with the intent to do you psychological or physical harm.
Pedophile: A special type of predator who targets children and, often very patiently, builds a relationship of trust with his young victims so he can later betray that trust to convince them to do things like send sexually explicit photos and/or videos, or even to meet him for face-to-face sexual encounters.
Just to keep things simple, we will occasionally lump all three together and call them "cyber-monsters."
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. --Lily Tomlin
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Robey
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Posted 02-14-03 08:07 AM
He, His and Him.
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We will usually refer to these cyber-monsters in the masculine, not because there aren't any female cyber-monsters out there but because crime statistics indicate that the majority of these creeps are men. For example, statistics show that most pedophiles are heterosexual men seeking young girls as frequently as young boys. If that seems illogical, it makes more sense when you realize that pedophiles, like bullies, rapists, and others of their ilk, derive their jollies not from sexual satisfaction but rather from the acto fo exerting power over the powerless. As such, the characteristic of interest is the powerlessness, not the gender, of their targets.
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I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. --Lily Tomlin
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Robey
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Posted 02-14-03 09:49 AM
Cyberstalkers sometimes make the leap from stalking victims in cyberspace to harassing them by telephone , snail mail and sometimes even in person (at which point the cyberstalker has crossed the line and become a cyberpredator).
You have been warned.
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. --Lily Tomlin
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TrpltJanie
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Registered: Aug 2002
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Posted 02-14-03 10:07 AM
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AGAIN BY ME! GROW UP! I'll be contacting my telephone company to complain about "dead" phone calls.
Janie
The Curb Kicker
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Karma
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Registered: Dec 2002
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Posted 02-14-03 10:14 AM
*Cyberpredator: Someone who uses the Internet to find out as much as he can about you (your real name, address, phone number, where you work, anything and everything else he can) and uses that information to invade your offline world and eventually make physical contact with you with the intent to do you psychological or physical harm.*
Sadly, I've seen people like this in action and it makes me angry that more often than not no one calls them on it.
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Robey
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Posted 02-14-03 11:47 AM
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Karma wrote:
Sadly, I've seen people like this in action and it makes me angry that more often than not no one calls them on it.
I have called them on it, and I will continue to.
That is the sole reason why we (CG members) are targeted. We are tenacious and refuse to be walked on, or unjustly censored.
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I am either being stalked by this person OR someone has the hots for me in a big way! LOL
Note to perp: Taken, sorry.
The reason makes no difference to me.
It will cease. OR someone will answer to a judge.
Action has been taken.
I hope the warning did not go unheeded.
The goal is not to put someone in jail.
The goal is to cease the action.
It is out of my hands now.
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. --Lily Tomlin
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