ストーカー対策を強化するため、Twitterやブログなどでメッセージを執拗に送ることも規制対象とする、ストーカー規制法の改正案が11月18日、参院本会議で全会一致で可決された。NHKなどが報じた。今国会で成立する見通し。
改正法は、2016年5月に発生したシンガーソングライター・元アイドルの女子大学生が刺傷された事件を契機に、今国会で議員立法で提出されていた。
事件では、容疑者が女子大生のTwitterに執拗に書き込んでいたことがわかっている。しかし、現在のストーカー規制法ではTwitterなどSNSでのメッセージ送信は対象外となっており、何度も送るだけで規制の対象になる「つきまとい」や「ストーカー」行為とはみなされなかったため、被害相談が警察で扱われなかったことが問題視されていた。
また、NHKによると、改正法では被害者の訴えがなくても起訴できる「非親告罪」とするなど罰則強化も盛り込まれている。
ストーカー規制法は、1999年に発生した「桶川ストーカー殺人事件」を契機に2000年に施行。恋愛感情などから、被害者や家族らに対して、つきまとったり連続して電話することなどを禁じ、2013年の改正で電子メールは規制対象となっていた。
ストーカー規制のあり方を議論した、警察庁などによる有識者検討会の会議では、2014年8月の段階でSNSの規制が提案されていたが、これまで法改正は実現していなかった。提案から2年以上経っての改正となった。
Twitter Design Over The Years
twttr 2006(01 of11)
Open Image ModalA long way. Still in motion. (credit:jack dorsey/Flickr)
Twitter 2007(02 of11)
Open Image Modal (credit:rustybrick/Flickr)
Twitter 2008(03 of11)
Open Image ModalTrying to decide if I like a vertical or horizontal layout better... I\'m leaning towards this one because it gives more space to see it in smaller screen resolutions. (credit:whiteafrican/Flickr)
New twitter design April 1st 2009(04 of11)
Open Image Modal (credit:mikineator/Flickr)
Twitter 2010(05 of11)
Open Image ModalWhen I logged into Twitter this morning I noticed that my account had been integrated with the new version of Twitter. It\'s my understanding that Twitter is rolling this out to everyone over time. Everyone may have it by now, or maybe my turn just turned on for my turn this a.m. Whatever the case, I\'m really digging the new version.\n\nAbove is a screen shot which what a flickr set link looks like in Twitter now. In the past if you pasted a link to a photo or a set on Flickr it would just be a text only link. Now you can actually expand the tweet and in the right pane a rich media panel shows up detailing your flickr photos visually. That\'s very slick. Sets especially are rich, with the ability to actually watch a mini slideshow version of the set right on Twitter itself.\n\nI\'m not sure yet if there is a way to automatically push daily Flickr uploads to your Twitter stream, or what this might even look like, but I\'m really enjoying the ability to manually post more media rich links to Twitter.\n\nI did use the tool on Flickr to link my Flickr/Twitter accounts, but I think this is more about giving me a special email address to tweet mobile flickr images than it is to auto publish my images like I have done in the past at Buzz or Friendfeed.\n\nGeotags on photos it would appear now can also be included now on photos on Twitter. I haven\'t exactly figured this out yet and am not sure if it will happen automatically on flickr geotagged photos or not, but this second screenshot of my friend @Troy (who works at Twitter) shows a recent photo of his dog @JPG\'s account (who is now tweeting too) which shows what the geotag embed looks like. \n\nOne of my chief complaints about Twitter over the years as a photographer is that Twitter never did photos all that well. While sites like FriendFeed and Buzz provided a richer visual media experience, Twitter was always all text based and I never felt it particularly did a good job showing off photos. This new Twitter design though is pretty massive in terms of improving the visual appeal of Twitter for both myself and I\'d think other photographers.\n\nI\'m actually using Twitter more and more these days based on some of the great new features like this that they\'ve been rolling out. I also love their recently launched suggestions feature -- which is probably the best suggestion feature I\'ve ever seen on any site on the web. I\'ve found Twitter suggestions to be far more spot on in terms of suggesting new people that I might want to follow. Ever since they launched this feature it\'s been daily serving me up fresh and relevant suggestions on who I should follow. Many of the people are people that I was completely unaware I wasn\'t even following. By contrast suggestions on other sites like Buzz have been far less relevant for me.\n\nCongrats to Twitter on the newtwitter. It\'s a great new improvement to the site.\n\nYou can follow me on Twitter here. (credit:Thomas Hawk/Flickr)
Twitter 2011(06 of11)
Open Image Modalthe disgusting spam that shows up within minutes of signing up for twitter (credit:sarahintampa/Flickr)
Twitter 2012(07 of11)
Open Image ModalNew sign up page (credit:archive.org)
Twitter 2013(08 of11)
Open Image Modaltwitter.com/marthadear/status/294586884540223488 (credit:planspark/Flickr)
Twitter 2014(09 of11)
Open Image Modal (credit:Nebraska Library Commission/Flickr)
Twitter 2015(10 of11)
Open Image ModalTwitter 2016(11 of11)
Open Image Modal