Make no mistake, I actually read his whole post (despite the fact that I felt the need to stop reading after his first paragraph, because it clearly indicated what was coming), and I just didn't agree with him. Harassment shouldn't be protected by free speech laws.

And many people are actually misdiagnosed with Asperger syndrome, so the guy could've been just a jerk. From what I know about Asperger syndrome, they're capable of controlling their actions, and this guy clearly displayed a pattern of harassing people deliberately, hence he is a danger to society.

If you're going to idolize them, and hold them as role models for how people should act TODAY, then it's only proper to judge them by TODAY's standards. And 'civil liberties' and 'personal freedom' are kinda incompatible with inequality. They're also limited when it comes to hurting others.

The Internet and Scoial Media have changed the landscape of society, and it's only normal that laws adapt to these changes.

Like any right it should be limited. Hate speech is not free speech.

I think you need to take serious action like this to actually show these mofos that there are consequences for being an asshole, even to people you don't know. Being nice doesn't cost you anything, but causing emotional pain to others just for the laughs is ridiculous.

That said though, I can't believe someone would kill themselves over some idiotic comments over the internet. It may have been hard to hear something bad said about herself, but she should have just blocked him.

Punishing bullies, even online, is right, but they just picked up one that has serious psychic problems and isn't one of those that bullied that poor girl when she was alive, he trolled her relatives when she was already dead: they didn't catch those guilty of actually pushing that girl to suicide and they punished just the first turd they could catch, even if he was guilty of a despicable but far less serious offence. The bullies that tormented her during the last period of her life are rich arrogant little bastards schoolmates of hers and "casually" they got away with it, unlike that poor mentally ill turd. Justice can't work this way.

death by fire-ants, forced to bath in lighter fluid, set to bake in the sun in the sands of the sahara desert. yep a fitting end to those who bully.

For some reason, why doesn't  it surprise me that the troll has issues regarding alcohol and problems with socialising?

I mean yes I do feel bad that he has asperger's syndrome but I have trouble showing sympathy to someone who enjoys seeing others suffer, even if its mentally. I guess it goes back to the idea of resorting to trolling and making someone else miserable because you yourself are miserable.

And I do agree that the real bullies that caused her to commit suicide needed to be apprehended even moreso than this guy, but atleast this should send a clear message to those who take sick pleasure in causing others suffering.

I don't pity people who commit suicide, but as for jail time...

On one hand, letting trolls post sick/retarded comments is a wake up call for the world...to show just what kind of people are around us....

...on the other hand...it's time somebody shuts these fuckers up.

They should determine whether Asperger syndrome let him understand well enough that what he was doing was wrong, if his ability to understand that is crippled, they should cure him. Obviously the cure should be mandatory, he couldn't refuse it, as, willing and conscious or not, he's harming other people, and he should be allowed to access the net again only after he completes rehab for alcoholism and if he carefully gets the psychiatric support he needs for all the time he needs it, even lifetime. If he was partially aware of what he was doing, he should receive mandatory treatment and, if the penalty appliable to what he did, considering the mitigating factors, still exceeds the period of mandatory treatment, a period of mandatory socially useful work, while continuing treatment.

But punishing just him sends at least two horribly wrong signals: that justice is happy to catch and punish the first poor turd it can, just to make public opinion and the victims or their relatives happy, and after that it doesn't care anymore, and that the rich can get away with crime.