"If it weren't for it, I think the chances of me having committing suicide would have been greater," he said. "Having a place where you can write those thoughts, get them out of your head. It can be very therapeutic."

But Suzanne's dad thinks otherwise.

"That's not pro-choice," Mike Gonzales said of the site. "That's brainwashing. And they are not being held responsible."

Responsibility? How the hell did he not know that his daughter had been thinking about suicide for two months? What the fuck kind of parenting is that?

We should throw his ass in jail for even suggesting that freedom of speech be so controlled that people can't express anything other than "normal" thoughts and behaviors. That just what the internet needs...to become fucking "Friends" from end to end.

-janelane, angrily

[ Agreed. I'm not saying there's no line at which speech becomes dangerous, but at the same time, parenting *is* hard. No one denies that. What parents should be doing is working and voting to establish a culture that makes their jobs easier to do right. That is not, emphasize *NOT*, the creation of new laws and new forms of censorship. -k]

CNN.com - Parents: Online newsgroup helped daughter commit suicide - Nov 10, 2005