UK Teen Jailed For Cyber-Bullying

Random Argument Man

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Well, she deserves her punishment.

However, I'm not sure about that photo...She looks a bit like Lund from Doomsday Arcade...Or is it me?
 

GamerLuck

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DrunkWithPower said:
OH, I hope this trend carries to the U.S.
While i too hope this trend kicks up in the US, it will probably have horrible repercussions... our prisons are already over-filled to bursting and all those no-life cyber bulling bastards will not do well in ANY federal institution.... Though the fall of 4chan may be worth it.

Oh, and that judge = win. Wish some of the judges here had the balls to verbally b**** slap the idiots who walk through their courts.. or if they already do, that it was publicized more.
 

Affero-Dolor

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Oh my god, someone's been banned from real life for trolling. That's just... amazing. Maybe people will learn that threatening someone on the internet isn't big nor clever, and then UTOPIA
 

FinalGamer

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Awesome, because death threats are a very serious thing on the internet.
More than serious business.
 

Casual Shinji

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"Gratuitous Nastiness"

Sounds like a character from Life of Brain.
 

Arkhangelsk

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The cyber-bullying isn't as serious as her abusing that girl in real life, so it's a bit weird that it's focused on that. Although I guess it's a bit rare with "cyber-bullying" over real bullying.
 

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wordsmith said:
nilcypher said:
threatening to kill someone on Facebook, the first person in the UK to be jailed for cyber-bullying
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"Since Emily Moore was 14 you have waged compelling threats and violent abuse towards her"
"Hey, there's that girl who's viciously bullied me for the last 4 years... *clicks add*"

Stupid girl...
What are you smoking? You can't expect people to take measures to protect themselves on the internet. It is so much easier to be stupid then get to waste the court's time and money. You know since they have nothing better to do than worry about what someone puts on your facebook.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
Low content post! Ban him! Rargh!

On a less mental point, good. I know alot of people that have been bullied over the web, and it ain't a nice thing for them. People always say you can "shrug it off", but it's not like that most of the time. Some comments are really harsh, and right out of order.
 

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Myself never being bullied before I really don't know the pain that it holds. However I have seen the atrocities they can cause. I'm able to defend myself, but I know not everyone can, and that means that situations like this gladden me because it means that people do have protectors now and these people don't tolerate any style of bullying
 

TriggerUnhappy

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I want to high five this judge or something, nice to see the retards of the world who cause trouble for no reason, may start getting punished.
 

Insanum

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If only she was a man, In prison they knock out your front teeth so you cant bite down.

At the end of the day she threatened to kill someone, She should be punished.
 

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This judge gets my vote for awesome. It's about time retards like her get what's coming to them.
 

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ae86gamer said:
Thats good, but she should probably get some sort of therapy.
Pipotchi said:
She will be a hit in prison though, a looker like her.
You sir.. have made my day. XD
Glad to know I spread a litttle sunshine

McCa said:
Pipotchi said:
She will be a hit in prison though, a looker like her.
Did your brain implode or are you being sarcastic?
Thats an affirmative on the sarcasm front
 

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Okay, I'm going to play devils advocate here, and that's really hard to do because I love the verdict of this case oh so very much. So here goes.

For all you people that think this kind of thing needs to spread like ebola in a blood bank, consider this: Once you can arrest people for what they post on the internet, you can arrest people for just about anything. Arrest them for what site they visit, arrest them for pictures they have on their social sites. Arrest them for the contacts they keep online. THe internet is quite possibly the last free realm of free speech and expression. We no longer have it in the real world due to the onset of politically correct speech and discrimination laws. For example, if a person from the UK were to come to the US and walk up to a man saying "I'm looking for a fag.", he could be dropped, booked, and jailed for sexual assault just on what he said. Extreme, yes, but just oh so possible when you line up a police officer and a judge who would just love to nail a guy for appearing to be gay. The internet is a safe haven where you can say whatever you want to, and so can everyone else. If I don't like what you say, I can just scroll on down, and if you don't like this post, so can you. However, in this instance of "cyber-bullying", I think it comes down to what someone else said earlier:

wordsmith said:
"Hey, there's that girl who's viciously bullied me for the last 4 years... *clicks add*"

Stupid girl...
Just as much as this "cyber-bully" is to blame, there is also personal responsability to consider. We all dealt with bullys in school; either you clocked them in the head and knocked them down a peg and then dealt with the teacher, or you ignored them and the situation resolved itself when they got bored. This isn't any different, except it's a lot easier and more harmless to ignore them.

There's my two cents.
 

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nilcypher said:
UK Teen Jailed For Cyber-Bullying


While Houghton appeared contrite during her hearing and admitted her involvement, District Judge Bruce Morgan was unimpressed, saying: "Since Emily Moore was 14 you have waged compelling threats and violent abuse towards her ... Bullies are by their nature cowards, in school and society. The evil, odious effects of being bullied stay with you for life ... On this day you did an act of gratuitous nastiness to satisfy your own twisted nature."
I like that Judge.

The bully was also a bit retarded to think that Facebook doesn't record the times you post things. Silly bully.

Although considering she's assaulted her twice before IRL you'd tihnk the sentence would be longer..
 

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Pipotchi said:
ae86gamer said:
Thats good, but she should probably get some sort of therapy.
Pipotchi said:
She will be a hit in prison though, a looker like her.
You sir.. have made my day. XD
Glad to know I spread a litttle sunshine

McCa said:
Pipotchi said:
She will be a hit in prison though, a looker like her.
Did your brain implode or are you being sarcastic?
Thats an affirmative on the sarcasm front
Thank god. I feared for your life.
 

shirin238

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Damnit where was this judge when I was little. This guy/girl is just awesome :D wish he could kick some of my old bullies around.

Prison for Trolls... Yayz :)