Jail time for internet "trolls" in the UK.

Just doing my BBC news reading for the day and I stumbled on this little gem:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29678989

Internet trolls face up to two years in jail under new laws.

So according to this law they want to use, a person that subjects to others to sexually offensive, verbally abusive or threatening material online are currently prosecuted in magistrates' courts under the Malicious Communications Act, with a maximum prison sentence of six months.... The article references a woman that received threats after defending her mother when her mother defended a rapist online, saying that the rape was "non-violent" and did not cause "bodily harm". -_o

Anyway, I have no idea where this is going, but they better make some clear distinction on what constitutes as a threat. I can see this going wrong, like that teenager ( Justin Carter) that got jailed for saying something stupid on Facebook, and frightening a Canadian lady.
 
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NostalgiaJazzAdmirer said:
Just because cyberbulling isn't taking place in the real world doesn't make it any better.
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Bullshit. Unlike bullying in real life, the person on the receiving end has control over the situation. Almost every site has mechanisms to block certain users. And even then, it's just fucking text. It's deleted in an instant. Cyberbullying is treated so seriously because middle-aged parents know nothing about the internet and media outlets exploit that ignorance by portraying cyberbullying as the scourge of God.
 
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And once again my country's government and judges show less understanding of how the internet works than they do of how to stop MPs and celebs raping children unpunished

Jesus fuck this just makes me wanna go into cyberlaw all the more given how goddamn inept the UK seems to be with making laws pertainin to the internet

For the record, I am 100% convinced and DEAD FUCKING SERIOUS that the goddamn kiwi farms residents would be more competent and qualified to write the internet laws for my country than these shitheels
 
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Arctic said:
Bullshit. Unlike bullying in real life, the person on the receiving end has control over the situation. Almost every site has mechanisms to block certain users. And even then, it's just fucking text. It's deleted in an instant. Cyberbullying is treated so seriously because middle-aged parents know nothing about the internet and media outlets exploit that ignorance by portraying cyberbullying as the scourge of God.
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Like I said. Blocking is not a permanent solution, the harassers can just make sock accounts. Cyberbullying isn't limited to "text". Your points would only be sound if we were talking about low-level trolling ("lol fag").
 
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Like I said. Blocking is not a permanent solution, the harassers can just make sock accounts. Cyberbullying isn't limited to "text". Your points would only be sound if we were talking about low-level trolling ("lol fag").
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If some retard on the internet keeps pestering you he's still some retard on the internet. Just a persistent one.
 
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Guys, I am going to agree to disagree with a number of you. There is a fine line between what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.

Nostalgia is right there is a line that people cross when they go on your profile and generally attack you. We discourage people on this site from engaging in what Nostalgia is talking about often because it crosses that line. Going on a person's profile and blasting them repeatedly and getting your friends to do it crosses a line. At what point when a person breaks is it enough? When some of the trolls go to far and it often happens - The person trolled person stops producing content. They stop sharing things about themselves. It forces them off the internet. Because of those types of trolls, it creates public outcry which causes laws like this to exist.

As one of my friends said,

"I'm still amazed at how so many people think they can justify baiting and trolling an autistic people by calling them naive or saying they deserve it for _____. Thereisnothingtheycoulddo, guys, that would make them deserve ANY of that treatment."

If trolls cannot better behave themselves and stop acting like they are middle schoolers, you can all expect laws like this to become more common. We already have a law in a number of places in the US.
 
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Arctic said:
Bullshit. Unlike bullying in real life, the person on the receiving end has control over the situation. Almost every site has mechanisms to block certain users. And even then, it's just fucking text. It's deleted in an instant. Cyberbullying is treated so seriously because middle-aged parents know nothing about the internet and media outlets exploit that ignorance by portraying cyberbullying as the scourge of God.
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So true. My school does a cyberbullying assembly every year, which practically compares cyberbullying victims to Anne Frank, WTH.
 
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So true. My school does a cyberbullying assembly every year, which practically compares cyberbullying victims to Anne Frank, WTH.
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We have had an epidemic over the last several years with teen suicides, suicide gunmen, and other disturbing incidents involving children. Clearly there is a problem and it seems that bullying has been determined by our best and brightest to be the cause.

We have a lot of people who are clearly mentally disturbed and to properly treat the vulnerable who might snap is cost prohibitive. It would be better to create soft "hugzones" in these schools and protect people from bullying. The internet is just another venue for these bored children with too much time and no parental supervision to abuse those that might have other issues.

Fixing those issues takes time and money. Having everyone not bully people takes very little effort and makes us all feel good. Which do you think is the better option?
 
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We have had an epidemic over the last several years with teen suicides, suicide gunmen, and other disturbing incidents involving children. Clearly there is a problem and it seems that bullying has been determined by our best and brightest to be the cause.
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Almost all of these involve Internet behavior, where the Internet is involved at all, that is ancillary to real world bullying. That is, to shit that would be illegal without any law specifically related to Internet stuff. It's just easier to put "cyber" in front of something and blame the Internet, instead of the very real assholes next door.
 
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AnOminous said:
Help! Help! Someone said something I don't agree with! Call the police! Bullying! Terrorism! I'm triggered!
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It is much easier to have the police arrest the bored and idiotic than it is for them to spend $1500(for the kid and the parents and everyone involved) a week in counseling to properly treat the vulnerable and effected. Besides if these bad trolls might poke and autistic with a stick they also might commit other crimes.

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tell me, basement dweller, what are you hoping to accomplish with this? i'm a bit too evolved to take your bait. get a life, please.
 
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I'm not saying that there shouldn't be bullying assemblys, but is it really an "epidemic"? kids have been bullied for years and all of sudden it is an epidemic. And some kid being called ugly online should never be compared to suffers of the Holocaust.
 
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