Mike_Johnson
New Member
Several months ago I entered one message board thinking it would be safer than chat-no live interaction. After a month I had a group following on my posts and answers and thought it might of been a person or persons I knew but no real names were ever given-just aliases and they claimed to be from states where I have no personal contacts and I shrugged it off. Some things posted were down right nasty but I knew it was a public message board and those things happened. One day I checked website searches in my name through the net, I do it for professional purposes and I found over 300 websites in my name and some had personal information on them.
I did print them but never pursued except several where I contacted the web owners and asked to be removed from links and hoped it was a prank and would stop-I stopped using the message board and internet completely and shut my email accounts down because I was continuously getting spammed and pinged when I was on line even after leaving the message board and phone hangups happened at my work and home.
About a week ago I entered the same message board thinking whoever it was went away and I was called a stalker for entering this public forum and now I wont return even though I think my freedom of speech has been violated.
My question is in a message board where no real names are given and my alias is no where near who I am be in a legal entanglement with harassment and stalking laws? I never emailed threats, posted threats or purposely bothered anyone in the forum just answered and asked questions and I was never reported to the moderator and none of it was sexual.
I did print them but never pursued except several where I contacted the web owners and asked to be removed from links and hoped it was a prank and would stop-I stopped using the message board and internet completely and shut my email accounts down because I was continuously getting spammed and pinged when I was on line even after leaving the message board and phone hangups happened at my work and home.
About a week ago I entered the same message board thinking whoever it was went away and I was called a stalker for entering this public forum and now I wont return even though I think my freedom of speech has been violated.
My question is in a message board where no real names are given and my alias is no where near who I am be in a legal entanglement with harassment and stalking laws? I never emailed threats, posted threats or purposely bothered anyone in the forum just answered and asked questions and I was never reported to the moderator and none of it was sexual.