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Facebook troll jailed - Page 17
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Cloud9157
United States2968 Posts
Mocking someone is now a jailable offense? Not sure when that started... | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
On September 15 2011 03:48 lizzard_warish wrote: I know freedom of speech isnt a popular idea anymore, what with the horrors of peoples hurt feelings and all [  people can become sad if you are a meanie!!! </3 ] but this is ridiculous and Britain should be ashamed. What he did was wrong, but it should not be against the law in any civilized country.Since when should harassment not be against the law in any civilized country? | ||
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Campfire
United States48 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On September 15 2011 03:48 Cloud9157 wrote: Maybe I'm missing something/overlooking the obvious, but this guy should not be jailed. Mocking someone is now a jailable offense? Not sure when that started... Read a few pages back, it was just talked about. Seriously. | ||
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Roggay
Switzerland6320 Posts
This guy seriously needs help if he is like that, jail won't dont much good. | ||
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Ryka
United Kingdom254 Posts
On September 15 2011 03:11 Torte de Lini wrote: If you cause distress or anxiety with those words. Just because you dumb down a law to something simple doesn't mean its silly or dumb. Inform yourself. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/27/section/1 There are implications to what your words do and it all depends on the effect or intent to cause with them. It is silly and it is dumb, there is absolutely no way on god's green earth you should be sent to jail for this. How does it help to spend huge amounts of my tax money locking people like this up instead of simply fining them and cutting off their internet/mobile phone access? Sure there should be some punishment for extreme harassment (not sure this is extreme as I don't know how persistent he was) but no way a jail sentence. | ||
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UndercoverNerd
88 Posts
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Suvorov
294 Posts
Sadly enough, you get jailed for trolling a dead girl on facebook but not for committing actual crimes against humanity. The justice system is beyond fucked. | ||
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Shamrock_
South Africa276 Posts
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MozzarellaL
United States822 Posts
On September 15 2011 03:43 Voltaire wrote: I'm glad I don't live in Britain. I can't believe being sentenced to jail over speech still happens in the 21st century western world. It happens in Europe all the time. The USA is the only country that truly has freedom of speech, everyone else pretends to, while the rest of the world doesn't even make any pretense. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On September 15 2011 03:54 Ryka wrote: It is silly and it is dumb, there is absolutely no way on god's green earth you should be sent to jail for this. How does it help to spend huge amounts of my tax money locking people like this up instead of simply fining them and cutting off their internet/mobile phone access? Sure there should be some punishment for extreme harassment (not sure this is extreme as I don't know how persistent he was) but no way a jail sentence. For me, this law should be a case by case scenario.. It depends on the situation and how much distress or anxiety your words, actions or message caused to the person. | ||
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Yew
United States940 Posts
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Voltaire
United States1485 Posts
On September 15 2011 04:00 MozzarellaL wrote: It happens in Europe all the time. The USA is the only country that truly has freedom of speech, everyone else pretends to, while the rest of the world doesn't even make any pretense. Bullshit. | ||
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Ryka
United Kingdom254 Posts
On September 15 2011 04:00 Torte de Lini wrote: For me, this law should be a case by case scenario.. It depends on the situation and how much distress or anxiety your words, actions or message caused to the person. Nobody would argue that I'm sure. But is jail a fair/reasonable punishment considering the cost to the tax payer and the benefit gained? Definitely for violent crimes jail is the best option, get them out of society asap, but for (albeit severe) internet trolling? | ||
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Shrubbles
Brazil29 Posts
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DBOWNIZZ
United States66 Posts
On September 15 2011 03:48 Cloud9157 wrote: Maybe I'm missing something/overlooking the obvious, but this guy should not be jailed. Mocking someone is now a jailable offense? Not sure when that started... Um no, if you read through the whole article, you would have read that he was doing much more then "mocking" this mother from a recently deceased daughter. He was harassing more then one person, and it wasn't like your everyday trolls he was going to a whole other level. BTW hardly ever do you see people going and trolling people who just committed suicide so we can throw that out the window right now. HE DESERVED EVERY BIT OF THE JAIL TIME. | ||
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MozzarellaL
United States822 Posts
Go look up the defamation laws of European countries. Jail time for any offenders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation While most civilized groups are in consensus that a person should never be jailed on account of his mere speech, the following European countries currently jail people for making defamatory statements: Albania Austria Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland Germany Greece Italy Norway Poland Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland You call that freedom of speech? No country which sends people to jail on account of what they said can ever be considered to protect speech. | ||
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BadgerBadger8264
Netherlands409 Posts
No, this is going to make society better, you're right, take anyone that is mean on the internet or with social handicaps and lock them up for 6 months along with rapists and murderers. This is clearly a logical answer to the problem and will prevent any future problems with this person. Sure. Straight thinking there buddy. So clever. | ||
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nam nam
Sweden4672 Posts
On September 15 2011 04:00 MozzarellaL wrote: It happens in Europe all the time. The USA is the only country that truly has freedom of speech, everyone else pretends to, while the rest of the world doesn't even make any pretense. You have no clue. A lot of countries have laws protecting speech in a similar fashion. It's usually not seen as some holy law as some Americans would make you believe. | ||
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DBOWNIZZ
United States66 Posts
On September 15 2011 04:06 Ryka wrote: Nobody would argue that I'm sure. But is jail a fair/reasonable punishment considering the cost to the tax payer and the benefit gained? Definitely for violent crimes jail is the best option, get them out of society asap, but for (albeit severe) internet trolling? I do agree with you how much of our Tax money is going to that but since he went to jail its not that significant BUT if he would of went to prison then I think there would be way to much tax payers money going to waste. Plus he was not in there for that long so I mean, not that big of a deal. Prolly learned his lesson | ||
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