Texas Assistant Principal sues students and their parents over MySpace page

[mandy]

MySpace will eventually be used to save the life of a cute puppy trapped in a well, and the company will bask in the glow of some unusual good press. But until that happens, we'll all have to settle for the more traditional stories of sexual predators, online harassment, and school officials who see MySpace as little more than a filthy cancer—and sometimes all three at once.

That's the case in Texas, where an assistant principal is suing two students and their parents over a MySpace page that depicted the administrator as a lesbian and contained "obscene comments, pictures and graphics," according to the court filing (.DOC).

Anna Draker, who works at Clark High School in San Antonio, knows the kids behind the site well. She had been forced to discipline them several times, and was aware of their animosity to her, but apparently did not suspect the lengths to which they would go to get a bit of revenge. Ben Schreiber and Ryan Todd set up a MySpace page in Draker's name earlier this year which "indicated by implication and by direct statement that Ms. Draker is a lesbian, which she is not."...

full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061011-7958.html