This guy definitely doesn't deserve jail time or any other form of criminal punishment. I'm not going to explain my opinion because everyone else in the universe thinks otherwise, so it would be a waste of time.

Community service and maybe a 4-figure fine would have sufficed. But Britain's idiotic judges elevated Facebook to real world level and felt they had to make an example out of him.

Suicides happen all the time and Facebook pages aren't made. They don't need to be made and they can be deleted.

English

United States475 Posts

September 14 2011 20:22 GMT

#364

A lot of internet restriction laws in our future. We could have prevented it, but no we feel entitled to say whatever we want in the name of free speech. It might be fun now, and we won't miss it until we've lost it.

Offhand

United States1869 Posts

September 14 2011 20:23 GMT

#365

On September 14 2011 20:20 spaZzNx-` wrote:
Wow, mocking someone on the internet is bad enough, mocking someones facebook page created for someone who has just suicide is just sad..

An hero...

InvXXVII

Canada242 Posts

September 14 2011 20:24 GMT

#366

There is a difference between a troll and a antisocial person. The man jailed seems to be the latter. I don't understand why the court did not decide to put him in a mental institution.

The court should invest more time into doing investigation about his condition. If it is true that this troll is antisocial and that he has Asperger's syndrome, jail time will prove to be of no use whatsoever.

Owarida

United States333 Posts

September 14 2011 20:25 GMT

#367

What the fuck is wrong with you people? You really think he should go to jail for hurting some ones feelings? He mocked a dead girl but so the fuck what?

If you mock the WTC bombing do you go to jail? If you mock the death of ANY one should you go to jail for it? That's an insane president to set that, if you mock some thing that hurts some ones feelings, you can go to jail. It's just downright frightening.

Falling

Canada11578 Posts

September 14 2011 20:26 GMT

#368

I suspect we'll see more of this sort of thing. In this case, the girl was already dead, but the police are starting to take a harder look at online harassment. I know most internet tough guys are all 'lulz, it's the internet,' but the police are starting to deal with a lot more suicide cases of students.

One of my practicum schools had an officer come to talk about their online activity (For a demonstration of how easy students are with their information, I think through social engineering, he starting a day or two before and he had become facebook friends with 50 students and had the cell number of 10 or so.) His talk was pretty balanced and really centred around all the creative uses of the internet. However, the one thing that really got him riled up was having to deal with the aftermath of young students committing suicide over online (and real-life) harassment.

I also don't think he has the 'right' to deface someone's memorial page anymore then he would have the right to disrupt a funeral at a cemetery. Both are public places, but it just isn't done, son.

askTeivospy

1525 Posts

September 14 2011 20:27 GMT

#369

as much as I enjoy idiots being kicked off the internet for lack of respect i think its a joke that he is sent to jail while people in this thread talking about physically attacking the idiot aren't going to be

Verator

United States283 Posts

September 14 2011 20:28 GMT

#370

This happens constantly in the states, especially to gay/ transgender kids and their families, and there's no way to really win a case against these people. At least Britain does the right thing.

BlackJack

United States10574 Posts

September 14 2011 20:29 GMT

#371

If posting hateful things about an underage girl is illegal then half the people in the Rebecca Black thread should be thrown in jail. Perhaps that law doesn't protect people that produce terrible music.

Velocirapture

United States983 Posts

September 14 2011 20:32 GMT

#372

On September 15 2011 05:25 Owarida wrote:
What the fuck is wrong with you people? You really think he should go to jail for hurting some ones feelings? He mocked a dead girl but so the fuck what?

If you mock the WTC bombing do you go to jail? If you mock the death of ANY one should you go to jail for it? That's an insane president to set that, if you mock some thing that hurts some ones feelings, you can go to jail. It's just downright frightening.

I think there is a growing movement toward accountability for internet speech. Believe it or not, LOTS of western countries don't think words should be as consequence free as Americans do. Many western countries regulate hate speech and verbal harassment with an understanding that they can be distinguished from criticism and art.

Drygioni

Japan379 Posts

September 14 2011 20:33 GMT

#373

Jail time for bad manner is ridiculous, even if it was extreme. I agree with the ban on social networking sites though, you shouldn't be able to do stuff like this with no consequences. Also he has aspergers, which doesn't excuse him but still, I know a guy with aspergers and his grasp of social norms is somewhat impaired. If anything he should be getting counseling instead of jail time.

Rokit5

236 Posts

September 14 2011 20:35 GMT

#374

Britain has the most craziest laws, and they are way to harsh. The fundamental rights we used to have, which took hundreds of years to incorporate are rapidly disintegrating in every western country.
What this douchebag did was wrong, but jail? No way.

@MozzarellaL:In Denmark, and several other European countries, you will only be jailed if you threaten someone seriosly and repeadetly or if you scream "IVE GOT A BOMB" when youre at the airport. Just saying.

eci

Germany45 Posts

September 14 2011 20:39 GMT

#375

Isn't the real wtf of the story that the mother did create a facebook site for her dead daughter?
Whats that facebook story all about?
Poor boy, 4 months of jail is hard...

MetalMarine

United States1559 Posts

September 14 2011 20:39 GMT

#376

well deserved

bre1010

71 Posts

September 14 2011 20:40 GMT

#377

Despite the stupidity of his actions, no way he should have gone to jail for them.

FabledIntegral

United States9232 Posts

September 14 2011 20:40 GMT

#378

If you mock it by writing your own blog, ok, you're a dick but yeah it's protected.

If you mock it by deliberately going about and saying "LOL LOOK AT YOUR DAD/HUSBAND JUMP OUT OF THIS BUILDING IN FLAMES ARRR SO HOT" while posting a .gif to the children/wife's facebook of said Dad that jumped out, you are deliberately going out of your way to cause mental anguish by contacting them and harassing them. Especially if you do it repeatedly. If you did it once you might be able to get away with it, since harassment is usually defined as having it be "persistent" with said intent, which was the case in this particular situation.

Truedot

444 Posts

September 14 2011 20:47 GMT

#379

On September 15 2011 03:46 KwarK wrote:

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