Stalking and Harassment
In 2007, Joura was the victim of harassment over her MySpace page.
Joura elected to make her page private and restricted to personal friends. In keeping with this, Joura deleted people from her MySpace page that were not family or close friends.
One of the people deleted, known as "QLDiver", took offense to this and instigated a campaign against the bewildered gymnast. "QLDiver" phoned several offices connected to Joura, including WA Gymnastics, as revenge for Joura deleting her from her MySpace friend's list. "QLDiver" later admitted on Gymworld (a popular gymnastics message board at the time) that she had done this to "... get Dasha into trouble."
This unfortunate episode forced Joura to seek advice about online safety, and to ensure that her personal social networking pages are secured and restricted to family and close friends.
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