Man arrested for trolling on Facebook

[Timmons]

i read the story earlier and i think he should be arrested, maybe not for 18 weeks, but still should. he's taking trolling to the absolute extreme

 

[Kirex]

Sending him to a psychotherapist would have been the better option. Well, he is a dick, sure, but how the hell is jail going to accomplish anything more than professional help? He clearly has problems.

 

[gCrusher]

But that would be assault.

If the cop didn't see it....It never happened. Thats what my wrestling coach told me.

Either we went to the same school... or all wrestling coaches get trained at the same place.

OT: I am in agreement that it wasn't trolling, he was being a tool. His sentence is relatively small, let him serve it. Maybe he'll learn his lesson.

.....Did you hate spin drills too? Was he drunk part of the time?...and yelled alot?

and yeah....he's just a dick...not a "poor sick person blah blah blah"

Now that you mention it, his breath was way stronger than 'I forgot to brush'...

Also, did he keep claiming he could've went pro but he had some unfortunate knee injury that stopped him just before the top? The uncomfortable staring while you're trying to shower in peace, claiming he was keeping vigilant in case of shenanigans?

captcha: let's commerco

Yes, let's.

 

[Zeekar]

I wasn't willing to read enough to get to what the charges were he was jailed for, but I imagine this has less to do with freedom of speech and more with slander and vandalism.

I don't really think that throwing him in jail is going to accomplish anything, but that act deserves some form of punishment. This will have to do.

Also, I'm inclined to say that this is NOT trolling. Trolling must leave no trace of the troll's identity, should instigate a self-propagating flame-war (as opposed to just making himself the target) and definitely shouldn't be illegal. This dude is just making excuses implying that there's some seedy activity he became "addicted" to. Well, he got addicted to being a dick, not a troll.

Going to blame that on autism too?

 

[Arafiro]

The guy is clearly a massively hateful jackass, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Did you all forget about the horrible disgusting comments that appeared on facebook when the the japans woman soccer team won against the US suddenly a load of disgusting comments like "yeah but we still won WW2 and maybe we should drop another one to show them who's the boss" those type of comments i saw were utterly disgusting and probably far worse than this man trolling if you ask me.

 

[Gudrests]

But that would be assault.

If the cop didn't see it....It never happened. Thats what my wrestling coach told me.

Either we went to the same school... or all wrestling coaches get trained at the same place.

OT: I am in agreement that it wasn't trolling, he was being a tool. His sentence is relatively small, let him serve it. Maybe he'll learn his lesson.

.....Did you hate spin drills too? Was he drunk part of the time?...and yelled alot?

and yeah....he's just a dick...not a "poor sick person blah blah blah"

Now that you mention it, his breath was way stronger than 'I forgot to brush'...

Also, did he keep claiming he could've went pro but he had some unfortunate knee injury that stopped him just before the top? The uncomfortable staring while you're trying to shower in peace, claiming he was keeping vigilant in case of shenanigans?

captcha: let's commerco

Yes, let's.

LOL ohh shit I just laughed too hard at that...nope we never showered at that school, I did get caught damn near naked more than once though....O well they were girls....O hia is a great first impression when your half naked

 

[PissOffRoth]

Facebook ban, move on with life.

 

[fates_puppet13]

there is an old internet saying on the matter "don't feed the trolls"
people should know better than this

but lolwut

 

[wadark]

Maybe its just me but I've always kind of understood that the right to free speech comes with a couple caveats. What this guy did, and what, say, the Westboro Baptist Church does, go too far. I do believe in free speech, and I don't think that you can or should control speech that is simply offensive to basic sensibilities. Look at the recent SCOTUS case, which basically said that violent material may be offensive to some people but that doesn't mean it's not free speech.

But when you have something like WBC, who intentionally and maliciously go out of their way to make offensive and cruel remarks directed at people who are already under severe emotional distress, and who do so for no other reason than to advance their own agenda, or what this man did, which was for no reason other than his own sadistic giggles, that's going too far.

Maybe sending him to prison is a little extreme, but I wouldn't object to there being laws that perhaps fined people for doing such things. Free Speech is a right, but it can go too far.

 

[renegade7]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036935/Natasha-MacBryde-death-Facebook-internet-troll-Sean-Duffy-jailed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I was wondering what you, fellow escapists, thought of this story.

Personally, while I agree with the consensus that posting offensive messages about dead teenagers is, of course, wrong, the fact that he was arrested for it is completely unreasonable.

It annoys me when people advocate free speech, but only as long as no-one gets offended.

That's why I say release this guy from prison, so someone can punch him in the stomach and let him get back to his life.

The fact that the statements were offensive isn't the issue. The problem was that he was CONTINUALLY harassing the family members.

 

[Findlebob]

This is open to interpration but didnt he get exactly what a troll wants. Everyone to notice him?

 

[NicoDK]

I would call this harassment and not just trolling. Theres a damn big difference.

 

[SH4DOWSL4Y3R]

great, should i be expecting hordes of mindless idiots beginning to rally against people with aspergers at some point now because of this guy? (although let me be perfectly clear that that insult was not aimed at any of the escapist residents)

 

[Kopikatsu]

Yesterday one of his victim?s parents hit out at Facebook, calling on the website to do more to tackle the problem after it emerged that one girl wrongly accused by others of posting the messages had attempted suicide.

The teenager took a drug overdose, but survived to see her innocence proved when Duffy was arrested earlier this year.

...What?

'Have you been saying bad things about dead teenagers?' 'No!' 'YOU'RE LYING!' 'OH GOD, I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANYMORE!'

I can't comprehend something like that. Just goes straight over my head. The fact that she tried to commit suicide by downing a bottle of pills pushes her out of any kind of sympathy zone though.

 

[Thyunda]

There's no freedom of speech in the UK. That's widely accepted.

By whom? Please substantiate your claim.

The Public Order Act, for one. If you think we have freedom of speech in this country, then you are seriously delusional.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

'Have you been saying bad things about dead teenagers?' 'No!' 'YOU'RE LYING!' 'OH GOD, I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANYMORE!'

Are you familiar with the implications and consequences of having your name smeared on a massive public scale? No? Then you probably shouldn't hand wave it with your bullshit straw man hypothetical.

 

[Selef]

so what westboro baptist church gets away with it, but this guy doesn't?

 

[Kopikatsu]

'Have you been saying bad things about dead teenagers?' 'No!' 'YOU'RE LYING!' 'OH GOD, I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANYMORE!'

Are you familiar with the implications and consequences of having your name smeared on a massive public scale? No? Then you probably shouldn't hand wave it with your bullshit straw man hypothetical.

What 'massive public scale'? Do you even know the name of the girl? Because I don't, and I actually spent some time looking.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

What 'massive public scale'? Do you even know the name of the girl? Because I don't, and I actually spent some time looking.

For not knowing the girl, you were quite comfortable putting idiotic words in her mouth in order to support your preconceived notion of how something like that would play out.

There's a reason slander and libel are crimes. Having your reputation and name dragged through the mud can have extremely serious consequences. Let alone for a teenager, who is going to be ill prepared to not catastrophize.