This is ridiculous, yeah the guy is an idiot and an A-hole, but I can't believe this is actually going through...
Judge Refuses To Dismiss League of Legends Terrorist Threat Case
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Sounds about right. There's no shortage of people saying the most horrible crap on the internet, but noone cares. Instead you just get told to get 'tougher skin' or not to 'feed the trolls'. And now suddenly everyone thinks that this kid deserves fucking jail time. Disgusting.Balimaar said:
The amount of people who think this guy deserves to be punished in any way is ridiculous, he was in an online argument and he made a sarcastic remark. That is it, I'm sure at some point at least half of you have done or said something worse online. If this kid actually ends up in a cell than that will be proof of how ridiculous the fear mongering in this country has gotten.
"You can say whatever you want but If you do I'll throw you in jail" Is not freedom of speech...valium said:
It was well established fact for me for years now that many people don't actually believe in the freedom of speech. At least not in the way it was defined by the founders.
More along the lines: "you can say whatever you want as long as its safe / not disruptive/ not strongly offensive"...
What's left after this is utterly impotent and largely irrelevant as means of true expression.
More along the lines: "you can say whatever you want as long as its safe / not disruptive/ not strongly offensive"...
What's left after this is utterly impotent and largely irrelevant as means of true expression.
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Oh god... this thread is really fucking upsetting. The amount of people who seem to actually think that this kid deserves prison time for making a sarcastic joke is just.. what the fuck is wrong with you people? This is shameful on a level I'd never have expected from these forums.
Well I don't. I would think the supporters would not be pleased if a crass and juvenile comment they made in their youth (we have all done it) got them tried for TERRRORRRISM.
I agree with you Augustine.
I agree with you Augustine.
Some things you can't joke about, some things are taken too seriously. Zero tolerance is a poor solution to a big problem here, a bit overkill, but again a threat like this was also stupid. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of responsibility, and people need to realize the shit they write and say often does have consequences that even they themselves must experience. The frivolous use of the word rape, for example.
I can't help feeling like someone that probably realized this was an imbecile's idea of smack-talk is polishing their successful troll award for getting a guy jailed for bullshit...
Bullshit he shouldn't have said without realizing that, given recent events, was a deeper level of stupid that it already was.
I can't help feeling like someone that probably realized this was an imbecile's idea of smack-talk is polishing their successful troll award for getting a guy jailed for bullshit...
Bullshit he shouldn't have said without realizing that, given recent events, was a deeper level of stupid that it already was.
Just to repost...since it's apparently still very relevant months after the fact.LostGryphon said:
Honestly, some of you people's comments on this matter disgust me, much, much more than any hyperbolic bullshit this kid could have said. Should feel fucking ashamed of yourselves for calling for any punishment beyond what the guy's already received.
Merry Fucking Christmas.
This kid needs to learn that it's just a game....
You can't say something like that and expect nothing to happen... He deserves everything he gets and I hope that other bottom-feeders who have the same kind of reactions learn a lesson from this...
But yeah... imprisonment may seem a little extreme....
Hell, if only the justice system had a special punishment set for people like this.... I mean, if they had to teach new players to the game or something as community service or W/e....
I mean, he'd have to be watched during the time... but meh...
TL,DR: He deserves it...
EDIT: PS: NOT AMERICAN!
So my understanding of "Freedom of speech/expression" is very limited...
So, yeah... I stand by my ruling...
You can't say something like that and expect nothing to happen... He deserves everything he gets and I hope that other bottom-feeders who have the same kind of reactions learn a lesson from this...
But yeah... imprisonment may seem a little extreme....
Hell, if only the justice system had a special punishment set for people like this.... I mean, if they had to teach new players to the game or something as community service or W/e....
I mean, he'd have to be watched during the time... but meh...
TL,DR: He deserves it...
EDIT: PS: NOT AMERICAN!
So my understanding of "Freedom of speech/expression" is very limited...
So, yeah... I stand by my ruling...
There is no right party , he should have said it and they shouldn't still be holding him , there are only reasons to drink. Really would have thought this would have been dismissed ages ago though but saying things on the internet is a crime now, I'm not overly thrilled about this at all.
What the kid said was sick and quite frankly, stupid. There was no reason for it save that internet gaming mentality that I hate when I play anything like LoL or WoW.
BUT PRISON? No. He's a kid who made a stupid mistake and is receiving a far more serious punishment for it than he should do. This is NOT right, and not deserved unless America is opting to run a completely merciless justice system now, with utter disregard for circumstance and actual crimes committed.
BUT PRISON? No. He's a kid who made a stupid mistake and is receiving a far more serious punishment for it than he should do. This is NOT right, and not deserved unless America is opting to run a completely merciless justice system now, with utter disregard for circumstance and actual crimes committed.
As this is going on worse things are happening in America. If saying something stupid on the internet warranted this kind of consequence, 90% of people should be locked up. No one deserves to go to jail for something like this. Also maybe the reason why so many people get shot in America is because guns are so readily available. In Australia we reformed our gun laws.
"Our 1996 reforms were precipitated by the Port Arthur massacre, the 13th mass shooting in 15 years in which five or more victims died in places like Hoddle and Queen Streets in Melbourne and Strathfield Plaza. The central provisions of the reforms were the ban on semi-automatic rifles and pump action shotguns, accompanied by gun amnesties and two national buybacks, which together saw some 820,000 guns destroyed. Because of their rapid firepower, semi-automatics are the guns of choice for those intent on killing many people quickly. John Howard introduced the reforms to prevent US-style mass killings, not primarily to prevent criminal or domestic gun homicides or gun suicides ."
Maybe try that out before locking up people innocent of anything resembling an actual crime. But you won't so people will continue to get shot and you'll look in all the wrong places for a solution except for the only one that would work.
"Our 1996 reforms were precipitated by the Port Arthur massacre, the 13th mass shooting in 15 years in which five or more victims died in places like Hoddle and Queen Streets in Melbourne and Strathfield Plaza. The central provisions of the reforms were the ban on semi-automatic rifles and pump action shotguns, accompanied by gun amnesties and two national buybacks, which together saw some 820,000 guns destroyed. Because of their rapid firepower, semi-automatics are the guns of choice for those intent on killing many people quickly. John Howard introduced the reforms to prevent US-style mass killings, not primarily to prevent criminal or domestic gun homicides or gun suicides ."
Maybe try that out before locking up people innocent of anything resembling an actual crime. But you won't so people will continue to get shot and you'll look in all the wrong places for a solution except for the only one that would work.
Well good for the judge. We should never negotiate with terrorists. I'm glad to see law enforcement taking this threat seriously. While I know this vigilance annoys some of you as you feel these sick and twisted comments were simply "a joke". I pose the question to you. What if this person, much like a Batman villain, was publicly announcing his crime spree, intentionally misleading and lulling the public into feeling he wasn't actually serious, so when he did actually go through with his horrific murder spree, the devastation would have double the impact? What then? How would you feel if the defenders of justice had just laughed this off and this monster was allowed to kill again? (okay, for the first time .. as far as we know).
As Jim Sterling stated in an article of his earlier this week, it seems in these dark days that we must take everything someone says on the internet as the absolute gospel. There is no benefit of the doubt. And if any of us don't do their damnedest to lynch everyone of these internet potato heads every time they say something ridiculous we are only contributing to the problem, and are therefore apathetic spineless cowards. React without thinking, that's Jim's motto. And should be all of ours as well.
I say good job judge, I for one hope this miscreant spends whatever jail time he gets hanging from his ears. Hooray. Isn't knee-jerk internet activism fun.
As Jim Sterling stated in an article of his earlier this week, it seems in these dark days that we must take everything someone says on the internet as the absolute gospel. There is no benefit of the doubt. And if any of us don't do their damnedest to lynch everyone of these internet potato heads every time they say something ridiculous we are only contributing to the problem, and are therefore apathetic spineless cowards. React without thinking, that's Jim's motto. And should be all of ours as well.
I say good job judge, I for one hope this miscreant spends whatever jail time he gets hanging from his ears. Hooray. Isn't knee-jerk internet activism fun.
What do you mean no sympathy for him? Most people agree that the joke was tasteless, but the punishment is far from acceptable, yet alone necessary and are advocating for the kid to be released and all charges dropped.Kungfusam said: