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Kasz216 on 15 September 2011
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kowenicki 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.)

Are you forgetting the US treatment of the UK guy who was a fairly patheric individual with aspergers that hacked the Pentagon from his bedroom?

You mean, a guy that committed a real crime that was like... literally the biggest hacking in of a military website, in the history of hacking, who's mental illness no doubt would of been considered in sentencing.

Vs this case where they didn't allow anything as a mitgating factor?

Besides which, seems hypocritical of the UK government, no?  Holding back people with the disease for facing trials with real crimes, yet sending someone to jail with the same disease for being "mean."