This is the problem with the web-normal rules don't apply

This article at the Globe and Mail illustrates what is wrong with the web when it comes to upholding journalism ethics and law.

There is an online group called "Free M.T.," she being the girl just convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of Stefanie Rengel.

The problem being that despite the girl's identity being protected in the printed word,on the social web,her indentity is

spelled out loud and proud and there's an accompanying full-face photograph, with our heroine showing a fair bit of skin in a low-cut top.

For the writer then

The normal rules mean squat on the Web. Publication bans imposed by law don't count, apparently not even to the authorities who would properly prosecute the regular press for such breaches.

Ht-Jay Rosen