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sethnintendo said:
rutea7 said:
he should have been banned from social networks for life, he's a pathetic little creature


Sign me up for the ban.  Social network sites are pretty lame if you ask me (which is why I deleted all my accounts).  If anything he should have been made to do community service.  Where are you going to draw the line to what is a jailable offensive remark?  Humans are turning into big pussies and social networks are allowing them to become even more pussified.  If you kill yourself because of someone talking shit to you over the internet that you don't even know then you are pretty lame.  It is time to realize that humans can be nice and they can be shit.  You just gotta sift through the shit to find the good ones.  Too bad teenagers overreact to everything (aka thinking high school is the whole fucking world).

social network sites are far from lame. i have friends that have moved all over the world and i use facebook to keep in touch. not to mention it's great to organize events with a large group of friends, those things are always hard to manage. i use it for lots of reasons and it can be a great thing when used properly. of course it's useless if you dont have friends.

the fact that people should not take their own life over cyberbullying or any kind of bullying doesnt retract from the fact that trolls that use the internet to bully other people are ridiculous.



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padib said:
Baalzamon said:
Complete jerk, but doesn't this go against our supposed right for free speech?

There are things you are free to say, but once you say them can be a violation of another law. For example, racist remarks, verbal harassment and things like that. I'm not a lawyer but it seems fairly natural to me.

But it was all over the internet.  It was her fricking choice to even read the comments.  Immediately upon knowing somebody was trolling her, she could just stop reading their comments, and on certain sites, block their ability to comment.



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Total sicko but I have no respect for the girl who killed herself because of his comments
You can't let people get to you like that, there a lot of people like this jerk or worse! :(



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/



IMO he shouldn't have gotten jail time.

That said he's a fucking asshole of epic proportions.



No troll is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate trolls, I train people. I am the Troll Whisperer.

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Don't know about jail time but I fully support some kind of action taken against the bullies.



And when you think that some people who have KILLED get away from jail time,because they have the money and relations,this guy gets locked up just because he's a social fuck-up.



lol what a stupid fucking law. Even if he is a fat piece of shit he shouldn't be in jail. Instead of putting him in jail police should just publicly release the man's identity so people can take the law into their own hands and ridicule this fat/lonely piece of waste.

Plus on another note I have no sympathy for people who commit suicide. Why the fuck should she get a day dedicated to her just because she offed herself?



what a horrible person

why shouldn't he get jail time if he is guilty,what else do you want to do with him put him on the naughty step



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sethnintendo said:
rutea7 said:
he should have been banned from social networks for life, he's a pathetic little creature


Sign me up for the ban.  Social network sites are pretty lame if you ask me (which is why I deleted all my accounts).  If anything he should have been made to do community service.  Where are you going to draw the line to what is a jailable offensive remark?  Humans are turning into big pussies and social networks are allowing them to become even more pussified.  If you kill yourself because of someone talking shit to you over the internet that you don't even know then you are pretty lame.  It is time to realize that humans can be nice and they can be shit.  You just gotta sift through the shit to find the good ones.  Too bad teenagers overreact to everything (aka thinking high school is the whole fucking world).


Couldn't agree more. All this political correctness and forcing us to be nice to each other is turning people into bitches/pussies. The founding fathers would probably be embarrassed at how their country is now, so few civil liberties.