Teen Arrested After Sending Abusive Tweets to UK Diver

[JMcEntegart]

UK tweeter receives harassment warning from police.

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[sseyler]

Trolling and sh*t-talking are usually things to be ignored on the internet. However, when it comes to threats, I suppose I agree with a degree of lawful interjection at some point, especially given the fact that many feel they can say (and get away with) almost anything on the interwebz.

 

[L0tus]

I'm torn on this one. On the one hand we can't police each and every moronic comment that spouts forth from every idiot on the internet.

On the other hand, if we are to truly call ourselves a civilized species, then some level of decency must be maintained & enforced.

But perhaps its a matter of capacity. We simply cannot police a public space as large as social media. Idiots and keyboards are both in abundant supply. Indeed I'd wager that the former is now a rather stout majority. In this case, this kid has ADHD, a broken family and over 10 other siblings. Clearly the parents failed at their jobs. Idiots aren't born, they're raised (most of the time). At some point in their dysfunctional upbringing, the act of being a d***head became tolerated.

 

[monktongaz]

I think it's clear that the troll didn't get arrested for his original comment. He later went on to threaten to drown Tom Daley, and it's this one that got him arrested.

As a side note, though, prior to his second comment aimed at Tom Daley, he was subjected to several hours of abuse from fans of Tom worldwide. It seems that in modern world, bullying is perfectly acceptable as long as you feel righteous about it and have numbers on your side, and that is as disgusting as the original troll's original comment.

 

[rantoc]

I have a feeling the kid will get 100 years of prison, if that would been an average joe who got those comments the offender would have laughed as the case would have been dismissed. It is indeed same "justice" for everyone.

 

[eyemaster]

Some might think that the problem is that we can't police every harassment or threats, but it's more of a society problem. Society has failed to foster and improve itself, it's everybody's job to ensure that their fellow man and women behave with decency.

We are still animals, but with large brains, our behavior reflects this. Greed, jealousy and envy seems to rule everyone, at one time or another, and we don't want to control ourselves.

As we fail as a society, we set up an authoritative figure to rule the law, the police.

 

[memadmax]

Free speech is free speech, even hateful, aweful speech...

That old children's rhyme comes to mind on this:

"STICKS AND STONE MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HURT ME"...

To react to trolling is childish in on itself...

To punish free speech is to open the door to much more sinister punishment, another well known quote comes to mind:

"GIVE EM' AN INCH, AND THEY TAKE A MILE!"

This is one reason why the UK is upside down and sinking down the hole as we speak. To take another example: The left wingers of the US, WANT US to be like the UK.... not good, and disastrous, maybe not at first, just like all left wing policies, especially the far left...

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]L0tus[/nom]I'm torn on this one. On the one hand we can't police each and every moronic comment that spouts forth from every idiot on the internet. On the other hand, if we are to truly call ourselves a civilized species, then some level of decency must be maintained & enforced.But perhaps its a matter of capacity. We simply cannot police a public space as large as social media. Idiots and keyboards are both in abundant supply. Indeed I'd wager that the former is now a rather stout majority. In this case, this kid has ADHD, a broken family and over 10 other siblings. Clearly the parents failed at their jobs. Idiots aren't born, they're raised (most of the time). At some point in their dysfunctional upbringing, the act of being a d***head became tolerated.[/citation]

South Korean government has plans of requiring all SK internet users to use an assigned combination of numbers or their real names.

You can either have civility or privacy over the internet. Not both, unless if humans magically became so enlightened that governments aren't required for society.

 

[manicmike]

This is all becoming a big talk about politics, but let's put this simply:

Tom is an Olympic Athlete.
The Riley person isn't.
Therefore, said Riley person is neither as skilled of an athlete nor as talented, and therefore has no right to criticize Tom's performance, ibso facto Riley can go "Suck on that"

As far as gov't involvement, I agree policing for non threatening comments is wrong, but there is a reason that threats are taken seriously by authorities: Either the threatener will make good on said threats, or the threatened will take any and all appropriate actions to protect themselves from said threat.

Are 9/10 threats empty? Yes, but since we're quoting rhymes we heard as children, "One bad apple spoils the bunch", and one moron wrecks things for the rest of us.

Edit: Also (at memadmax), My dad died back in '09, and I have 0 tolerance for anyone who doesnt know him smack talking him (face to face, obviously can't really do anything over the net yet). It takes a real coward to talk smack from behind a computer screen, and while Tom may not have won the gold, Riley had no right to lash out in the way that he did.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Free speech is free speech, even hateful, aweful speech...That old children's rhyme comes to mind on this:"STICKS AND STONE MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HURT ME"...To react to trolling is childish in on itself...To punish free speech is to open the door to much more sinister punishment, another well known quote comes to mind: "GIVE EM' AN INCH, AND THEY TAKE A MILE!"This is one reason why the UK is upside down and sinking down the hole as we speak. To take another example: The left wingers of the US, WANT US to be like the UK.... not good, and disastrous, maybe not at first, just like all left wing policies, especially the far left...[/citation]
Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want. Free in free speech comes from freedom and freedom doesn't give you the right or power to do or say every thing that comes to mind.

Also another quote comes to mind: "The pen is mightier than the sword"

 

[COLGeek]

Douche bagimus maximus is the proper term for the offending tweeter.

Another case of internet anonymity overriding common sense and basic civility. I can assure you this "conversation", if it happened in public, would have likely made a different headline. Something like "Olympic Athlete Pummels Tweeter Into Submission".

 

[lp231]

They should send in the military attack helicopter to his shed. Then missile his ass for being a internet twat.

 

[Tab54o]

[citation][nom]sseyler[/nom]Trolling and sh*t-talking are usually things to be ignored on the internet. However, when it comes to threats, I suppose I agree with a degree of lawful interjection at some point, especially given the fact that many feel they can say (and get away with) almost anything on the interwebz.[/citation]

He didn't threaten anyone. Arresting people over twitter shit is retarded. Who the fuck even cares what other people say online. The diver puss shouldn't have even been looking at that shit before the event.

 

[f-14]

i fail to see anything wrong with these tweets except it is happening in the United Kingdom of Socialist Republics (U.K.S.R.)
i feel sorry for the brit, no freedom and bad electric designers.

 

[orionite]

US elitism in strong force here, once again. Well done, I say. I'm sure the right to insult, threaten and slander another human being is EXACTLY what your forefathers had in mind when they wrote that landmark piece of paper you right-wingers seem to quote from at every opportunity.

 

[dotaloc]

After giving it my all...you get idiot's sending me this...

When calling someone else an idiot, even if it is obvious, it hurts your cause to make grammar or punctuation errors.