Trolls can now be sent to prison

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Kasz216 said:

So in otherwords.  It's your opinion that the vast majority of people in the media, most people who post on message boards and the like,  all should be thrown in jail for harrassment.

Including people like say... John Stewart from the Daily Show... or really even yourself.  What with as eaisly as you throw the word bigot around.

Well, Jon Stewart has a variety show that's essentially made to parody (and there's nothing wrong with that, since he's show isn't 'serious'), and I don't think I've ever used that word if it wasn't somehow connected or relevant to the actions of the person/group I was referring to and the subject at hand.

Trying to discredit an opponent using fabricated (or not) material, often made especially to take advantage of a negative bias, and quite irrelevant to the issue at hand (e.g. 'accusing' the president of being a muslim) is really one of the chief causes of the decline of modern politics and the modern media. Even the founding fathers, whom you guys idolise so much, would probably be disgusted that the example I gave would even be considered an issue worth noting by the media (considering that back then the media was a chief actor that encouraged rational critical debate regarding politics, as opposed to what exists today).

Also, not all insults count as harassment. For example this guy commited harassment because he chose victims, and then repeatedly posted insulting and disturbing messages in places where he knew his victims would see them, in order to hurt them. Most of the things that go around in the media would fall more in the realm of defaimation, rather than harassment.