Trolls can now be sent to prison

[Kasz216]

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

On the one hand, clearly this guy sucks.

On the other hand, this is yet another scary ass reason I wouldn't want to live in the UK.

It's quite literally the government tracking you down and locking you up in jail for something you said on the internet.

For why this happened, and also an opinion on why it shouldn't....

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100104832/loathsome-though-they-are-internet-trolls-should-not-be-sent-to-prison/

Considering the writer of that article, his opinion doesn't deserve much attention.

So you judge opinions by seeing who makes them rather then the merit of said arguements.

I mean, you honestly think it's GOOD that people are thrown into jail based on subjective criteria.

Let alone people born with a mental illness like the guy in this story.  (Who has Aspergers.)

Make no mistake, I actually read his whole post (despite the fact that I felt the need to stop reading after his first paragraph, because it clearly indicated what was coming), and I just didn't agree with him. Harassment shouldn't be protected by free speech laws.

And many people are actually misdiagnosed with Asperger syndrome, so the guy could've been just a jerk. From what I know about Asperger syndrome, they're capable of controlling their actions, and this guy clearly displayed a pattern of harassing people deliberately, hence he is a danger to society.

It seems like a stretch to call that harrasment without any threat of physical harm.  Though then again, UK harrasment laws have been used to prosecute peaceful protesters... so I guess it's more an issue with the UK's batshit crazy laws in general...

I mean hell, how many people bash other people in public?  If repeated insulting of a girl who killed herself (who he had never met before hand) is harrasment, what's to say that repeatidly insulting the Prime Minister on national TV isn't harrassment?