Wait a Minute...Are Pro-Ana Sites Legal?
Saturday April 5, 2008
Pro-ana website owners may be running out of time before legal consequences arrive. Christine Balderas / iStockphoto.com
It hasn't come up in the court system yet, but I found a paper that examined whether pro-ana websites could be held liable for doing harm to those who read them. Free speech? Or obvious harm? It's a tricky question from a legal standpoint.
But the real problem is that any legal action would bring out the deepest interpersonal symptoms carried by those with anorexia.
- Pros and cons of going after pro-ana websites
- Ummm...what's pro-ana?
- Other risky behaviors that can trigger (or deepen) eating disorders
Comments
I know child porn site should be stopped way before people give a damn about starving people.Anorexia is not going to stop just because there are no sites to look at.Anorexia has been around before the internet and will still be here.Stop having skinny ass actress crammed down every body throat.The is where most young girl get there thinspation.