Trolls can now be sent to prison

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Alby_da_Wolf said:

Asperger syndrome can leave the subject able to learn and do even complicated concepts and tasks, but it affects the most social life and human communication skills, so even if he were not handicapped at all either in physical abilities or pure reasonment, he can really be almost totally handicapped in human relations, not understanding irony, not getting the external signals of other people's feelings and so on. You really can't say his particularly handicap didn't affect what he did. As I wrote in a previous post, he could have learned the mechanisms of black humour and sarcasm, but not understood in what cases is inappropriate. Or the reason of his actions could be another abnormal reaction, there are a lot of different possibilities that his mental problems influenced his behaviour. And even not considering mitigating factors, both in the case of the stabbed boy and the girl bullied until suicide, he wasn't the one that committed the biggest offence. Why didn't anybody  prosecute the bully girls? Was it easier to prosecute not the worst offenders, but just the one that couldn't afford expensive lawyers?

He was deliberately posting messages on sites where he knew the kid's parents and loved ones would see them. He was harassing them. It had nothing to do with humor (unless he got a kick out of mentally torturing people, which he probably did). HE was probably seen by a doctor, and that doctor obviously deemed that his 'mental illness' did not excuse his behavior.

And I still don't understand why you keep bringing up those girls who bullied the girl who killed herself (and now the guy who stabbed that boy, who was most likely arrested). It's simply irrelevant to the case at hand. This guy was harassing the parents and loved ones of the kids that died, not the kids themselves, and that's what he was prosecuted for. We don't know anything about the girls who bullied the girl who killed herself. We don't know who they are, what they did exactly, the toll it had on the girl etc. There may simply be no reason to prosecute them. And most of all, it has nothing to do with this case, it's simply IRRELEVANT.