Imagine being sent to jail for being a sue !

I don't think there's enough capacity in the jail service to house them all. 

imagine the imaginative newspaper headlines

His name is Sue how do you do  


I still have a couple of sue requests, there was a couple of oddballs  

their were all sorts I wonder what the bloke whos gone to jail said

Oh hai! 


 

There was some pretty tasty stuff said on the Jade Goody sites tbh but I dunno about sending someone down for it.

that'll be $5 

'Unemployed Coss was only caught when he sent residents on his street photos of himself saying he was an internet "troll".'

Clever boi.:rollseyes:

Absolutely ridiculous.

They are only words on a screen ffs!

The pen is and always will be mightier than the sword.

Words can wound and make people feel sad, scared and intimidated.

The sword can disembowel you and sell your viscera to a dog food factory so on balance I'd rather face the pen. 

Tell that to the youngsters who have committed suicide due to internet bullying.

Which is indeed terrible.

An argument about the power of the word.

I'd still rather receive verbal abuse than physical.  Are you seriously saying you'd prefer the contrary?  You'd rather face someone with a sharp sword than a sharp tongue? 

I know this.... but Prison? Come on!

You can walk into the street and twat someone, knocking them out and you wouldn't get jailed.

Noooo

I am just saying that mental abuse is hurtful and can incite people to feel awful and do dreadful things and therefore perpetrators should be punished .
Just saying glibly "it's only words on a screen"  shows a remarkable lack of insight into this horrible problem.

he got 18 weeks he'll be out in one.

Why does it have to be comparable?

TBF, "Pen is mightier than the sword" is comparing them.  Word and physical.


I don't doubt the power of language.  Indeed on a macro scale the pen or, more specifically, notions and thought have been the catalyst for most (all) human suffering and death.  On a micro, one to one, level, no contest.  I know who/what I'd rather face.

I also watched some of the contretemps on the Jade pages that seems to have led to this and the behaviour of the defenders of her good name was, if anything, worse than the troll(s).

Because jailing people because they write that they had sex with someone who is dead is absolutely ridiculous, that's why.
It's pathetic. Yeah it's bang out of order that he wrote obscene stuff about dead people, but ffs no need to jail him for it.

I wonder what kind of precedent this will set. It's the first case I've heard of. How are the judges going to gauge the degree of offence and set the punishment accordingly? I've never been on a forum that doesn't have its fair share of trolls. Obviously disrespecting the memory of dead people is highly offensive particularly on a site where the relatives are likely to see it but I just don't see how this kind of thing can effectively be policed. 

Sounds to me like this guy was made an example of, more a deterrent than a sign of things to come. It's a tricky one.

Why quote me and then talk about something totally different?

She never, she quoted me. 

You said it is only words on a screen. I was pointing out that mental abuse ( in this case words on a screen) can be very hurtful and people should not be allowed to get away with it. 

I realise that I am in a minority, but as so many others have said, it is only my opinion,

Okay fairy nuff, I thought you were trying to make out that I'd said 'words on a screen' about cases where cyber bullies have been abusing and abusing a victim via emails, facebook, text, msn etc so much so that they've committed suicide, which wasn't the case. This is a case about someone posting obscene messages such as 'I've had sex with her corpse' which yes is a minging thing to put, but friggin hell does it really warrant a prison sentence?

If you agree with this then you better hope they build more prisons, because if they start jailing people for posting anything offensive and obscene on the internet then a lottttttt of people are gonna be put inside.

You're probably in majority tbh.


People I know who are not exposed to the rough an tumble of parts of the web on a regular basis are aghast when I relate some of the buffoonish antics that go on. 

Application to join any forum or Twatbook should probably be an instantly imprisonable offence.

Crunchy - have you ever lost anyone close to you? Grief is a powerful emotion and the last thing you want to read  is some horrible oik getting on to a FB page you have set up in memory of a loved on and basically posting revolting stuff about them. One of the deceased was a child I believe.

Now maybe prison is a bit harsh - but on the other hand perhaps he is being made an example of.

Actually I belong to a couple of forums - one of which is not moderated and there are some truly sick souls out there.

What's wrong with just banning them from the page?  Problem disappears. 

Excellent.  Linky?  *lolz* 

It is my local paper website - blood and sand Bateman - they make the Daily Mail readers look like readers of the Morning Star

A sword can only kill a handful of people maxium in a moment, a pen can kill millions. 

I am of course referring to this pen if it came to life and went postal. 


 

That bad boy would need a lot of ink

Oy no trolling allowed 
Well exactly, what has it started, and where will it go onto.