...What?Yesterday one of his victim?s parents hit out at Facebook, calling on the website to do more to tackle the problem after it emerged that one girl wrongly accused by others of posting the messages had attempted suicide.
The teenager took a drug overdose, but survived to see her innocence proved when Duffy was arrested earlier this year.
The Public Order Act, for one. If you think we have freedom of speech in this country, then you are seriously delusional.catalyst8 said:By whom? Please substantiate your claim.Thyunda said:There's no freedom of speech in the UK. That's widely accepted.
Are you familiar with the implications and consequences of having your name smeared on a massive public scale? No? Then you probably shouldn't hand wave it with your bullshit straw man hypothetical.Kopikatsu said:'Have you been saying bad things about dead teenagers?' 'No!' 'YOU'RE LYING!' 'OH GOD, I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANYMORE!'
What 'massive public scale'? Do you even know the name of the girl? Because I don't, and I actually spent some time looking.BloatedGuppy said:Are you familiar with the implications and consequences of having your name smeared on a massive public scale? No? Then you probably shouldn't hand wave it with your bullshit straw man hypothetical.Kopikatsu said:'Have you been saying bad things about dead teenagers?' 'No!' 'YOU'RE LYING!' 'OH GOD, I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANYMORE!'
For not knowing the girl, you were quite comfortable putting idiotic words in her mouth in order to support your preconceived notion of how something like that would play out.Kopikatsu said:What 'massive public scale'? Do you even know the name of the girl? Because I don't, and I actually spent some time looking.
Exactly!Crazycat690 said:Making a facebook page? Don't they deserve it then? I mean, if you scream out "Hey look at us! We're super sad about this thing! We just want everyone to know that we're sad!" you're asking for someone to say "lol you suck".
There's a difference between saying something offensive, and making someone else the repeated target of your bullshit. There's an even greater difference between making someone the target of your repeated bullshit and making someone the target of your repeated bullshit when that person is already in an extremely emotionally fragile state. There's an even GREATER difference between making someone the target of your repeated bullshit when that person is already in an extremely emotionally fragile state, and making someone the target of your repeated bullshit when that person is already in an extremely emotionally fragile state AFTER THE FUCKING COURT HAS ALREADY GIVEN YOU A PASS AND A WARNING BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE IT ON NUMEROUS OTHER OCCASIONS.Stublore said:Exactly!
It's like putting a memorial poster up in an area renowned for graffiti and then being surprised "and upset" when someone defaces it.
Now let's look at another example Raoul Moat, there are some pretty sick things posted there and some pretty nasty "joke" sites, but no one is saying that the posters are scum and should go to jail are they?
Where is the investigation into those "trolls"??
Double standards much?
This I agree with. Locking people up never really accomplishes much. The bit where they basically banned him from the internet for 5 years was pretty funny though.honestdiscussioner said:Yes, let's lock him up for an arbitrary amount of time, which will due nothing to dissuade him from doing it again. It would be crazy to try and do something like, I don't know, getting him therapy since he obviously needs help. Punishment doesn't work that well on people like him.