Man arrested for trolling on Facebook

[Gudrests]

But that would be assault.

If the cop didn't see it....It never happened. Thats what my wrestling coach told me.

Either we went to the same school... or all wrestling coaches get trained at the same place.

OT: I am in agreement that it wasn't trolling, he was being a tool. His sentence is relatively small, let him serve it. Maybe he'll learn his lesson.

.....Did you hate spin drills too? Was he drunk part of the time?...and yelled alot?

and yeah....he's just a dick...not a "poor sick person blah blah blah"

 

[Atmos Duality]

Redundant topic is redundant.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.312712-Internet-troll-is-jailed-after-mocking-deaths-of-teenagers-online?page=1

But I suppose the Tabloid source works too...*cough*

 

[LordFisheh]

Lol Daily Mail.

Seriously. "Autistic loner", "The loner, who lives on benefits", "cowardly", "hooked on the sick craze of ?trolling? ? where internet users deliberately leave abusive and bullying comments", "vile", "vile", "vile", "vile", "vile", "vile", "vile".

I mean the guy is an asshole who deserved what he got, but it's hard to ignore the Mail's usual subtext. Internet loners on benefits (what sad losers!) are violating our wholesome middle class lives.

 

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

OMG all you people are obvious stupid hippy freaks who need ot stop smoking pot and not washing. lulz...

OK.. that's being a troll. What he did was criminal. Full stop, send of story. Bloatedguppy is bang on. Mr. Duffy broke multiple laws with his activities and received warnings from the police/court system to stop.

Yes he deserves jail. When he gets out if he does it again, he deserves a longer sentence or sectioning under a mental health act.

Thing about Freedom of Speech is it lacks responsibility of freedom of speech. Anyone can say whatever they want to and that's their right. However, sometimes that fight crosses the line and infringes or out and out beats up and mugs another persons rights. Now seeing we can't strip someone of their right, the courts have to police them and enact punishments. This is nothing new. Libel, slander, hate speech, incitement are all crimes that deal with free speech and have so for years.

The alternative is to strip people of their rights and that opens an actual slippery slope as opposed to the one people think is being opened here.

 

[Matrixbeast]

I guess freedom of speech doesn't exist any more. This reminds me of V or Vendetta. They can't throw him in jail for this. Sure he's a ****, but if you allow things like these to happen you're next. The governments are slowly taking away your rights. None of this shit was possible before you gave up your rights to the government in order to feel a little safer from the terrorists. Ah the terrorists, the bogyman for the adults.

What he was doing constituted Harassment.
Freedom of Speech doesn't let you get away with anything just because it's verbal and not physical.

 

[mad825]

I guess freedom of speech doesn't exist any more. This reminds me of V or Vendetta. They can't throw him in jail for this. Sure he's a ****, but if you allow things like these to happen you're next. The governments are slowly taking away your rights. None of this shit was possible before you gave up your rights to the government in order to feel a little safer from the terrorists. Ah the terrorists, the bogyman for the adults.

They can, It's called the Public Order Act 1986 and/or 1994...Don't know where you have been living.

 

[Timmons]

i read the story earlier and i think he should be arrested, maybe not for 18 weeks, but still should. he's taking trolling to the absolute extreme

 

[Kirex]

Sending him to a psychotherapist would have been the better option. Well, he is a dick, sure, but how the hell is jail going to accomplish anything more than professional help? He clearly has problems.

 

[gCrusher]

But that would be assault.

If the cop didn't see it....It never happened. Thats what my wrestling coach told me.

Either we went to the same school... or all wrestling coaches get trained at the same place.

OT: I am in agreement that it wasn't trolling, he was being a tool. His sentence is relatively small, let him serve it. Maybe he'll learn his lesson.

.....Did you hate spin drills too? Was he drunk part of the time?...and yelled alot?

and yeah....he's just a dick...not a "poor sick person blah blah blah"

Now that you mention it, his breath was way stronger than 'I forgot to brush'...

Also, did he keep claiming he could've went pro but he had some unfortunate knee injury that stopped him just before the top? The uncomfortable staring while you're trying to shower in peace, claiming he was keeping vigilant in case of shenanigans?

captcha: let's commerco

Yes, let's.

 

[Zeekar]

I wasn't willing to read enough to get to what the charges were he was jailed for, but I imagine this has less to do with freedom of speech and more with slander and vandalism.

I don't really think that throwing him in jail is going to accomplish anything, but that act deserves some form of punishment. This will have to do.

Also, I'm inclined to say that this is NOT trolling. Trolling must leave no trace of the troll's identity, should instigate a self-propagating flame-war (as opposed to just making himself the target) and definitely shouldn't be illegal. This dude is just making excuses implying that there's some seedy activity he became "addicted" to. Well, he got addicted to being a dick, not a troll.

Going to blame that on autism too?

 

[Arafiro]

The guy is clearly a massively hateful jackass, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Did you all forget about the horrible disgusting comments that appeared on facebook when the the japans woman soccer team won against the US suddenly a load of disgusting comments like "yeah but we still won WW2 and maybe we should drop another one to show them who's the boss" those type of comments i saw were utterly disgusting and probably far worse than this man trolling if you ask me.

 

[Gudrests]

But that would be assault.

If the cop didn't see it....It never happened. Thats what my wrestling coach told me.

Either we went to the same school... or all wrestling coaches get trained at the same place.

OT: I am in agreement that it wasn't trolling, he was being a tool. His sentence is relatively small, let him serve it. Maybe he'll learn his lesson.

.....Did you hate spin drills too? Was he drunk part of the time?...and yelled alot?

and yeah....he's just a dick...not a "poor sick person blah blah blah"

Now that you mention it, his breath was way stronger than 'I forgot to brush'...

Also, did he keep claiming he could've went pro but he had some unfortunate knee injury that stopped him just before the top? The uncomfortable staring while you're trying to shower in peace, claiming he was keeping vigilant in case of shenanigans?

captcha: let's commerco

Yes, let's.

LOL ohh shit I just laughed too hard at that...nope we never showered at that school, I did get caught damn near naked more than once though....O well they were girls....O hia is a great first impression when your half naked

 

[PissOffRoth]

Facebook ban, move on with life.

 

[fates_puppet13]

there is an old internet saying on the matter "don't feed the trolls"
people should know better than this

but lolwut

 

[wadark]

Maybe its just me but I've always kind of understood that the right to free speech comes with a couple caveats. What this guy did, and what, say, the Westboro Baptist Church does, go too far. I do believe in free speech, and I don't think that you can or should control speech that is simply offensive to basic sensibilities. Look at the recent SCOTUS case, which basically said that violent material may be offensive to some people but that doesn't mean it's not free speech.

But when you have something like WBC, who intentionally and maliciously go out of their way to make offensive and cruel remarks directed at people who are already under severe emotional distress, and who do so for no other reason than to advance their own agenda, or what this man did, which was for no reason other than his own sadistic giggles, that's going too far.

Maybe sending him to prison is a little extreme, but I wouldn't object to there being laws that perhaps fined people for doing such things. Free Speech is a right, but it can go too far.

 

[renegade7]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036935/Natasha-MacBryde-death-Facebook-internet-troll-Sean-Duffy-jailed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I was wondering what you, fellow escapists, thought of this story.

Personally, while I agree with the consensus that posting offensive messages about dead teenagers is, of course, wrong, the fact that he was arrested for it is completely unreasonable.

It annoys me when people advocate free speech, but only as long as no-one gets offended.

That's why I say release this guy from prison, so someone can punch him in the stomach and let him get back to his life.

The fact that the statements were offensive isn't the issue. The problem was that he was CONTINUALLY harassing the family members.