Karla O’Malley wants to outlaw harassment in online memorials

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Death and taxes … and asses. Yes, despite all of its awesomeness, the Internet has ensured that miserable jerks are another of life’s guarantees and that they have a place to share their awfulness with the world. The worst of the Web are the bastards who defile online memorial sites.

With just a few keystrokes, anybody can be the digital variety of the creep that pissed on Brian Euston‘s makeshift Westport memorial. We can all agree that people who ridicule the deceased online are terrible. But do we want to tinker with the First Amendment to stop them?