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@memzak, what that kid has done is ILLEGAL. Stealing your cybername and impersonating you and defaming you online are tantamount to the kind of massive violations of privacy that the News of the World was caught doing.
Now is not the time to engage in a “flame war”. Now is the time to calmly & rationally go to that kid’s parents with your concerns. If they fail to take the matter seriously and discipline their juvenile delinquent son, then you should go directly to the police.
This isn’t a case of “just being a kid”. That 15-year-old is breaking the law. If you’re in the USA, his acts are FELONY offences. In Canada, they’re Criminal Code offenses. They are also violations of privacy, which fall under the domain of the Privacy Commissioner. He and his parents could also be leaving themselves open to a lawsuit. Cases like this turn up on “Judge Judy” all the time.
I know you feel bad about going after this kid, but, if you don’t, then sooner or later, his little games will land him in jail.
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