Troll to be prosecuted

[downfader]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/15/jane_troll/

If true then this sounds interesting. I've seen a lot of trolling done on the web, and they generally get away with it whether its racism, sexual taunting, telling someone to kill themselves or whatever. Far too many people exploit the (percieved) anominimity of the internet. Now its being reigned in slowly others will probably suffer from these idiots actions and the reactions

 

[mcshroom]

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His downfall came about only after he distributed photos of himself to residents on his street, saying he was an internet "troll". His neighbours rang police[/quote]

Er

 

[slowmotion]

Oh Hell! P&L doesn't have long to live.

 

[Crankarm]

His downfall came about only after he distributed photos of himself to residents on his street, saying he was an internet "troll". His neighbours rang police.

He seems like a picnic basket short of a few sandwiches ...................

How about this nasty piece of work, Keeley Houghton, who received three months in prison for cyber bullying. http://www.timesonli...icle6805567.ece

 

[yello]

ha ha Bring on the school reunion!

I read somewhere that many peoples motivation for going to school reunions was to show others how much they'd changed (bragging was another motivation, unsurprisingly). They'd had a sh*t time at school and wanted to prove to others that it hadn't bothered them, that they were now 'well adjusted' and rounded people bearing no malice... only the latter bit is not quite the truth!

Re the trolling prosecution; I've not read the linked article but I must say that I find myself feeling somewhat uncertain at the moment, not sure that the law should be brought in to such matters.... but then that all depends on what they did I guess.

 

[Bird Brain]

Nice to see they are cracking down on this but when do they actually start clamping down on motorists using mobile phones while driving.

The answer is never because it is socially acceptable.

 

[vernon]

Nice to see they are cracking down on this but when do they actually start clamping down on motorists using mobile phones while driving.

The answer is never because it is socially acceptable.

I don't think that it is socially acceptable it's just that it's not high on the list of priorities - which offences would you have the constabulary ignore in order to prosecute mobile phone using drivers?

 

[Archie_tect]

They manage to ignore a lot of them- never understood why there are so many police in high performance cars tootling about or sitting at roadsides eating sandwiches .... unless they are driving round at 4 in the morning chasing twoc teenagers at mindblowingly dangerous speeds on public roads until they crash wrecking other people's cars, only to give them a slap and another driving ban- not much deterent to a 15 year old thug.

.....oh, just remembered- they spend weeks shooting VT andgetting paid for appearing on 'reality 'cop' shows!

Sorry, got sidetracked...

 

[downfader]

I know some people say "ignore it" but imvho theres only certain stuff you should ignore. We seem to have blurred the lines somewhat with a myth of internet freedom/utopia.

I reported some death threats I found on Facebook about 6 weeks ago. When I checked back a little while later they were still there. I do feel that big websites need to do more to tackle this rubbish behaviour, they seem to have shrugged this social and legal responsibility. Then there is the self-moderation of pages within those websites, youtube for example: if someone comes on one of my vids and leaves a load of abuse I usually delete it, send them a message saying "behave" and block. If everyone did that then that would severely limit a troll's "voice".

 

[Muddyfox]

Nice to see they are cracking down on this but when do they actually start clamping down on motorists using mobile phones while driving.

The answer is never because it is socially acceptable.

Quick ... someone call Admin

one of the commuters has escaped again

 

[Glow worm]

Re the trolling prosecution

It's the ones that lurk under bridges they should do something about as well

 

[Muddyfox]

It's the ones that lurk under bridges they should do something about as well

+1 ... those poor goats

Simon

 

[Banjo]

A bit of relatively harmless stirring is to be expected but that guy is a real sicko.

 

[bof]

If he's stood in the road outside a funeral yelling abuse for fun he'd have been charged with something and repeated instances would have landed him in jail - I don't see why the cyberworld really need be any different.

By the way I was catching up on some Alan Partridges I'd recorded last night and the one with him attending the funeral of the BBC manager who had refused to renew his series so he could try and win his series back was very funny in the usual toe-curling way.

 

[EssexRider]

at least boxxy wasnt trolling.