Internet Troll Gets Tracked Down, Confronted in Real Life

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[citation][nom]danjimaru[/nom]The thing is, we live in a society where everybody has to take care of each other. When people do not then that's the origin of anti-social behaviour. Big city life, anonymousity, the selfish motives we have to put ourselves and our kin first - these are all factors that promote anti-social dissorders in a community.If farmers stopped farming, (and there is good reason for them to do as there is no money left in farming) who would produce the food for you to eat? We are highly dependant upon labour and services of our fellow citizens, as such we need to work as one to try cope with the problems of society as a whole. Disinterest and ignoring the problem only makes it worse for everybody. We are all in the same boat[/citation]


You like to go on a long winded talk that leads to no where. Bringing things like farming and labor jobs into it like we need to watch these people to keep them working. People work to provide for their family. Farmers farm to provide for their family. What i'm saying is what business is it of yours what he does in his life? If he takes extra cash and goes and has a drink for example after a long days work what business is it of yours? He takes care of and provides for his family so what ever else he does that is not illegal or bothering some one else is none of your business. If we all took care of our own problems at home we would be much better off.

So your neighbor smacks his child's behind for throwing rocks at cars. Because you do not agree with it your call social services as you think you are right in only putting a child in time out. Point is if you took care of your own child and worried more about them and their welfare then the world would be better off. Now if he was out there punching the child kicking him and doing severe damage i could understand a call to social services.
 
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]I'm glad I don't live in the UK where freedom of speech is officially dead.....[/citation]
Oh c'mon, you don't honestly believe you're free to say whatever you want, in any specified country, do you?

No one is "Truly" free to do whatever they want. You're "Free" within boundaries and limits. When you impose on MY freedoms with your words, you're now stepping out of your boundaries.
 
He is not a troll. That is no trolling. He is simply a "bastard" (not that much). Okay, racism is not that good. But, I agree with him. Such things (like a funeral, memorial page, whatsoever), doesn't belong to Facebook. It's just so fake.

It's like receiving "happy birthday" messages. If you are registered on Facebook, and set up the dates, everyone will message you, etc. If you don't? Only your closest friends will say it. Who are important.

So yeah. (Ps.: I don't have an FB account. Had one, seen no point. Fake "friends", lies, putting up a mask for the other people. I don't want to do that.)
 
To tie my rants to the original topic; I believe it to be the good right of a troll to use hateful messages on whatever public site he wants. Is it tasteless and repulsive to do so on a memorial site? Yes, it is.
But does it justify a manhunt and big attention this guy is getting? No way.

But because his anti-social behaviour is so out of line no one even cares to question why this guy is doing what he does. Most people could care less to acknowledge his disfunction much less try find a motive to his actions. That's the general mentality of the mob: hang him, no questions asked!! It seems the basic instincts of retaliation and vengeance are still dangerously present in society, a remainder of dark ages.
 
[citation][nom]zolton33[/nom]..like we need to watch these people to keep them working.[/citation]
Yes we need to! It's our moral obligation. If we turn our heads and look the other side greed will ride these good people out of their livelihoods. Why do you think so many people complained to Apple about working conditions in China?
It certainly didn't happen out of "minding our own business" that we have fair wages. Not too long ago John Steinbeck described an American nation that stood up for their rights and opposed to picking grapes for 1 cent a day. If everyone had just minded their business guess who'd be starving to death these days? Now the allegory I tried to make with food is that human beings depend on social inclusion just as much as they depend on food to survive. Deprive the man from a social connection to the community and mighty strange things are certain to happen. Now the reason why we prefer to elude ourselves with "mind our own stuff" attitude as being a good way to get things fixed around us is just a way of trying to escape responsibility of someone else's action. Nobody want's to take the blame for letting the neighbours son at the end of the road become a psycho when infact every member of a community is to blame
 
[citation][nom]sincreator[/nom]So your here tring to defend sex offenders, pedos and radical islamists? So you would have no problem not knowing if they were in your neighbourhood if you had kids that went to school, or played in the park, or came home late after being out with thier friends with one of them nearby? Wow you must not be a parent. lol.[/citation]

wow you sure assume alot, what are you doing letting your children run around unsupervised for don't you know 90% of murders and sex offenders aren't caught?
you aren't a very good parent are you?
you do know the best average police response to a crime is typically 45 minutes or longer right?
i don't know where you're from but i watch people commit crimes right in front of watching police here all over in america and the police don't bother to do anything about it.
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff130495.html#ixzz1mPBsRIGR
 
[citation][nom]jl0329[/nom]Not the typical reaction I imagined a troll would have when exposed in real life. If they host a show about hunting internet trolls, I'd definitely watch it.[/citation]
That'd be amazing. You should pitch the idea to a network 😀
 
[citation][nom]dirtyferret[/nom]wow the BBC can show racial slurs.[/citation]

They can show many things US broadcasters won't. They could, but the blue-hair coalitions will descend on them and the FCC will start issuing fines. England made the right choice long ago chasing the Puritans out and sending them to America.
 
[citation][nom]danjimaru[/nom]Yes we need to! It's our moral obligation. If we turn our heads and look the other side greed will ride these good people out of their livelihoods. Why do you think so many people complained to Apple about working conditions in China?It certainly didn't happen out of "minding our own business" that we have fair wages. Not too long ago John Steinbeck described an American nation that stood up for their rights and opposed to picking grapes for 1 cent a day. If everyone had just minded their business guess who'd be starving to death these days? Now the allegory I tried to make with food is that human beings depend on social inclusion just as much as they depend on food to survive. Deprive the man from a social connection to the community and mighty strange things are certain to happen. Now the reason why we prefer to elude ourselves with "mind our own stuff" attitude as being a good way to get things fixed around us is just a way of trying to escape responsibility of someone else's action. Nobody want's to take the blame for letting the neighbours son at the end of the road become a psycho when infact every member of a community is to blame[/citation]


I'm very concerned now about how delusional you are. There is a huge difference between asking for help and forcing your will and help on others. I live in west virginia the place where our own government turned on its people and shot them down like dogs for wanting to earn a decent days wage. So don't try to patronize me and try to act as if you know a thing or two about it. And how you can try to justify a pedophile and put it in the same category makes me sick. You need to really seek help if you believe these delusions. You are trying to tie together people being under paid psychotic killers and pedophiles all in the same place.

There are worlds of differences between the 3. And for all you have read and for all you have learned you can not tell the differences? And you feel justified in invading a persons private life when they have done nothing wrong as they need to be watched? As all people need to be watched? Man i'm done even trying to make a dent into your logic as its broken as well as conflicting on itself. Although i do stress to please talk to some one any one and seek help. But i'm done commenting here. We have gone from trolls to pedophiles to now serial killers and people under paid? Its really gotten ridiculous now. Good luck to you sir and i wish you all the best.
 
[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]wow you sure assume alot, what are you doing letting your children run around unsupervised for don't you know 90% of murders and sex offenders aren't caught?you aren't a very good parent are you?you do know the best average police response to a crime is typically 45 minutes or longer right?i don't know where you're from but i watch people commit crimes right in front of watching police here all over in america and the police don't bother to do anything about it.A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.Thomas JeffersonRead more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ [...] z1mPBsRIGR[/citation]

I guess by your opinion you should have taps on your teenagers phones, video survaliance from satelites on them, follow them around at night while their out with friends? If my kid is young then yes I would supervise them at a park, or escort them back and forth to school if I wasn't working, but Teenagers need their own freedomand you can't be there 24/7 to supervise them. I think your the one who is assuming too much honestly. What in the hell does anything about tomas Jeffersons quote have anything to do with what I said BTW? Basically all that 75% of your post tells me is that your govenment/law enforcement has failed from what I can tell. Police watching crimes happening in front of them without doing something. I highly doubt it, but if they actually do that then you have a way larger problem on your hands.

If I know there is a sex offender around I would take extra precautions, and also disscuss the situation with my kids so they aren't left in the dark. The guy I quoted didn't even want to know that they were around and thought it wasn't right for people to know that they are even in the neighbourhood, because it infringed on their rights as a human being. They register these offenders as part of their punishment, and if they didn't want that treatment they shouldn't of commited the crime in the first place.
 
and this troll was successful, look how upset he made people, he made a crew of people hunt him down and confront the trolling. I can only imagine him sitting at home right now writing an email into the trolls hunters saying "lol u mad?"

way to feed the troll
 
[citation][nom]zolton33[/nom]I'm very concerned now about how delusional you are. There is a huge difference between asking for help and forcing your will and help on others. [/citation]

This.

More specifically, there's a big difference between granting help to those that ask and forcing one's will and help on others.

The easiest way to tell the difference is to ask the question "Who are you doing it for?"

Most people, even well intentioned people, that force their help on others are mostly doing it for themselves. They do it because they subconsciously want to feel like a hero, feel important, or feel needed.

[citation][nom]gokanis[/nom]Yes, he can say what he wants, but there will be consequences.[citation]

[citation][nom]cronik93[/nom]Well in America there would be no consequences. As for trolling, in some states online harassment is illegal.[/citation]

In the US, there would be no consequences in a court of law (on paper). In a court of public opinion...that's another story...
 
[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]Wow, this guy is messed up. Racism isn't an opinion, it's a hate crime.You sir generalise people who believe in liberalism. this isn't a forum for political bashing of liberalism and conservatism.[/citation]

how many true hate crimes are there anymore...
if a white person hits a black person, hate crime...
look at the south park episode on it, because that is basically my opinion told in a funny way. no the n guy episode, the other one that was eairler.

tell me, someone makes you mad, what is the first thing that pops into your mind? is it all kindness and butterflies, or is it the most filthy racist/sexist terms you can think of?

i don't believe those two terms exist at large anymore, and are only brought up when a fight breaks out.

sorry thats a bit rantish, but i hate it when people are overly sensitive.

[citation][nom]billybobser[/nom]Weird, because it's not what i'd associate with being a troll.What the BBC have found is an internet c*nt. Like real life, there are *unts and they will do seemingly illogical things and antisocial things because they don't know better.I feel a proper internet troll is a little more elegant, and if done right, deserves respect. Going to the lower common denominator and hitting random deceased people on facebook with obviously upsetting comments isn't trolling."trolling is a art".[/citation]

i remember a few years ago i was on 4chan, and they caught wind of a rip page for 4 people who died because they drank their collective, don't want sanction again, off and rammed into a tree. most not wearing seat belts, and i think 1 lived because of one,

now 4chan, they heard of it, and saw the tree died to, so they started a page for treeloc, going to the rip page and complaining about how they killed a tree, and how treeloc had so much to live for.

now most peiople would be against trolling a rip page, in general, but there are some like the "i drank to much and drove with my drunk as hell friends into a tree" where you just cant feel bad for those involved at all...

also remember the an hero and had a bad day, another rip page

[citation][nom]ringzero[/nom]It sounds like you oppose any sort of law enforcement when any kind of crime is committed. Are you saying that the current law that require sex offenders to register on the Sex Offender list violates that sex offender's rights?[/citation]

i believe the term sex offender is to vague, it covers everything from forgetting to zip up your fly to having sex with a dead body, and you are all put under the same rules as the worst of the offenders. lets say you are like me, and the only way you are getting sex is from a hooker, and you get caught, time to register, now you cant live within 1000 feet of a child, park, or school zone, and need to inform everyone in the vicinity that you are a sex offender, not to mention that you lose you job most likely too...

what im saying is i dont like the sex offender register at all, and if there was no severe life altering consiqences, id probably have sex before i die.

[citation][nom]dragonsqrrl[/nom]Wonder how the trolls here on Tom's would react if confronted in real life... Always pictured them as a bunch of 14 yr old boys in their mothers basements, playing MW3 for 4 hrs a day, everyday. Now I know they could very well be pissed off 40 yr old douchebags.[/citation]

24 male, im a dick online at times, and act the same way in real life, if confronted in real life, it depends on what you do... if its verbal i will be sarcastic, if its physical, i will make sure you are the one on the floor, most if not all views i express online i will back up by saying the same thing in real life too.

[citation][nom]ringzero[/nom]Hey, thanks for replying. I agree that parents who track down and publicly humiliate sex offenders are inviting retribution, just like the BBC was risking a physical confrontation when talking to the troll. But they still have done nothing illegal. I've done nothing illegal if I yell obscenities at someone who cuts me off on the highway, but I have if I follow him and slash his tires.Parents who know of sex offenders have a responsibility to handle that information appropriately. Just like adults have a responsibility to not violate the many children who are around them. A list of registered sex offenders acts as both a punishment and a deterrent and I still don't see how this is "at the expense of someone else's kid."[/citation]

except when a sex offender if found, and lets say its statutory rape, where its only considered rape because the other person is under consent age.

all the register will say is they had sex with a minor...

lets say the neighborhood knows and starts harassing them.

one day an amber alert is made from around the area, and the neighborhood attempts to kill them because they believe he did it...

the above scenario isn't exactly uncommon.

[citation][nom]zolton33[/nom]Its not parents. What you are suggesting is saying "teach your kids how to balance themselves then let them go walk the ledges of a bridge they are fine" The question parents ask is there a reason i should endanger my child by letting them around a sex offender? And it is just not worth it. And how about this for a sex offender and potential ones? "Do not mess with children under the age of 18" Is that such a hard concept? If you do you will not only be looked down on but you will also be avoided like the plague. We are not talkingabout some one who stole a gallon of milk to feed a child we are talkingabout emotional and physical scars left on a child for life. So sorry if i say icould care less about their comfort level and how they feel.[/citation]

in the context of a 15 year old by getting sex with a woman, considering those "mental scars" that need to be treated could be more harmful than good. what would it do to you if you had to go to a psychologist, for having sex, and being told that you were taken advantage of and that's the only reason it happened, and being forced through that because that's what they believe happened, and only see the 15 year old by as a victim.

looks wise i peaked around 15 or so myself. and i mean to the point where my personality could be over looked by my looks.

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i didnt bother reading the rest because it was almost 5 pages of sex offender stuff.

i have gone on in other topics you can look up of physical bullying aspect, but i also had the "emotional" crap to, granted i grew a thick callous there, and grew it fast, and i regard people who off themselves because of online bullying as weak individual and examples of darwins theory. anyone who went through any amount of in real life verbal/emotional abuse who sees someone off themselves because of online bullying cant help but think of how weak a person they were...

yea this post is going to very unpopular, i know that.
 
They should have flat out asked him "WTF is wrong with you? WHY do you go on to people you don't even know's sympathy pages and post such hateful crap? Seriously, is it like gambling or drugs to you where you get off pissing people off? TELL us WHY you are such a douche bag! Do you need counselling or something?"

THAT is what we REALLY want to know... not whiny legal threats.
 
lol what a noob troll, he got found.

its easy to stay hidden, and its fun to troll. i dont mind people trolling on my so i dont care. You can troll on my facebook page the day i died... i wont care, im dead.

trolling is part of the internet, just like *** service comes with restaurants. theres always gona be one.

also trolling doesnt neccesarily have to be on somebodys death webpage, it can be on many things.


and if this guy tracked me, il make a criminal case up against him for stalking, and get a restraining order. just to **** up his life.
 
I think he would welcome the postings, he is clearly just grinding an axe to get himself noticed. Now that he knows his face is out there he will become a hero in the bigot community. Here in America we can not do anything about this type... it is one of our basic freedoms to allow people to make an absolute fool of themselves like this. Its the language used that gets censored, but the original intent of the wording can typically stay. So you can be racist in the USA but you can not say the 7 dirty words to do it.
 
[citation][nom]cronik93[/nom]That isn't racism. That's discrimination/or being prejudice towards a group of people. Not a race of people.[/citation]
Nice. At least it seems that IS allowed in the UK - boy do the French get trashed regularly on TV, and I find myself laughing. The time that it was a mexican ambassodor that got stero-typed in a UK TV program the US TV got involved - the program gave an appology and the offending statement was edited out when shown in the US - I was living in the States at the time - free speach guys??? means different things to different folks...
 
[citation][nom]truefoe[/nom]I think he would welcome the postings, he is clearly just grinding an axe to get himself noticed. Now that he knows his face is out there he will become a hero in the bigot community. Here in America we can not do anything about this type... it is one of our basic freedoms to allow people to make an absolute fool of themselves like this. Its the language used that gets censored, but the original intent of the wording can typically stay. So you can be racist in the USA but you can not say the 7 dirty words to do it.[/citation]
Well put but case-in-point about different (democratic) countries seeing things differently. 'Wog' gained the status of the 'N' word here in the UK some 20 or 30 years ago. A brit using it would loose all credibility....
 
[citation][nom]mickyd1234[/nom]Well put but case-in-point about different (democratic) countries seeing things differently. 'Wog' gained the status of the 'N' word here in the UK some 20 or 30 years ago. A brit using it would loose all credibility....[/citation]
Sorry, quoted wrong message. Should have been cronik93..~:-(
 
[citation][nom]mickyd1234[/nom]Sorry, quoted wrong message. Should have been cronik93..~:-([/citation]
Now im going completly crazy - need to take a break - intended for @danjimaru
 
Racism isn't illegal. Harassment however, is. I would imagine that's what the reporter meant by "People have gone to jail for less."
 
Internet trolling is stupid and dangerous. The more you do it, the more likely you are to provoke someone unstable into doing something of great harm. Clearly this guy has no idea what the repercussions of his actions are likely to be.
 
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