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. 

So you're calling the victims of bullying 'lame'? And none of those kids killed themselves because they were bullied online by people they didn't know. This guy was spweing nasty remarks about them on sites dedicated to their memory, which constitutes as harassment. It's no different than writing obscenities on someone's grave.

I am calling people that kill themselves or others (and themselves) because they were bullied lame.  Almost everyone gets bullied at one point in school.  The ones that committed Columbine or other school school slayings were usually victims of being bullied.  Someone is called a slut, dork, etc...  all the time in school.   I'm just saying that teenagers need to realize that they will probably never see those fuckers again the rest of their lives yet they still feel a need to harm themselves or others because of the injustice of being bullied during their school years. 

I misread the story and assumed the girl threw herself under the train because of him (not being insulted after the incident).  Anyways, this just reminds me of Westboro Baptist Church that protests fallen military at their funerals stating that they died because of gays or whatever.  It is fucked up and I don't think they should be allowed to protest directly at a funeral site.  However, if one can't voice their opinion on dead people (there are plenty of dead people that one should be able to talk shit about including Hitler, Stalin, etc..) then what the fuck society are we becoming?

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

Kasz, having read that article Toby Young makes a point that is: "Who can judge the subjectivity of offense". But a good comment at the bottom of the page sheds light on the objectivity of the matter:

"It's been mentioned, but I'll say it again.  This is not a case of a troll.  This is an evil kind of harassment, it is stalking, it is libel.  These people stalk the parents of dead children to leave public messages that their murdered daughters were whores who deserved to die.  These people steal pictures of crime scenes and anonymously pass them around and around and around, so whenever grieving parents go on the internet, there it is, yet again, a picture of their teenager's severed head, with more horrific comments concerning their dead child's lack of all worth and their having deserved to die.  These are endlessly forwarded on, so the parents have no peace.  It is harassment, it is stalking, and it is libel, all rolled into one."

True though, it does give a sense that people are less free to post the darker sides of their minds.

People/companies get sued millions for causing emotional distress, so it seems appropriate.

Yep and getting monetary reinburshment for causing emotional harm is very different from going to jail for it.

1)Well, the commenter judged it as libel, you can agree or disagree. I personally agree that it is libel (which is defammation right?), though the laws in the UK fly miles over my head (I'm Canadian and not entrenched in law). Whether he is judged as that or not is a different story, and the verdict may or may not be the most just/true one. Not to say I discredit the verdict but again the poster may be right.

I think he was either mentioning facts that were ignored in the article, or relating to other instances where defamers were not incarcerated.

He has Aspergers does he? A mental illness? I didn't read that but ok.