Good. Freaking. Lord, People.

We all know it’s sad when a 13-year-old commits suicide, but this is a clear abuse of the law.

In case you didn’t click that link and read the story, the deal is that a woman in Missouri, posing as a 16-year-old boy, contacted one of her daughter’s friends on MySpace. When she tried to break off the relationship, the girl committed suicide. Now, the FBI is invoking a law written to stop hackers from committing identity theft in order to charge the woman with a crime.

Look, guys: creating a fake profile on MySpace is not “Gaining unauthorized access to a computer system in order to obtain information,” even if it violates the MySpace TOS. If it were, then the 500 people on MySpace who claim to be God are also felons. (If you think that blasphemy should also be a felony, consider instead the 425 people who claim to be Thor.)

The way the FBI is interpreting this law would allow them to pin a conviction on pretty much anybody they wanted to, and that’s just a bad idea.