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Old 09-17-2011, 12:59 PM   #25
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Re: Internet Troll gets sentenced 18 weeks in prison

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Originally Posted by Kong View Post
I agree with Dudebro. Outlawing speech on the Internet is a very slippery slope.

A couple extra things.
This would probably not happen in America. We even protect the KKK.
We are only going to catch the stupid people. The ones that don't know how to hide their identity.
The Internet is international. There will always be some countries that allow this so the best we can do is arrest trolls in a few specific countries.
The guy has aspergers syndrome. I bet nearly all Internet trolls do. I don't mean that aspergers makes you a troll but it does explain the situation a bit and should make it easier for you to just ignore trolls.
The solution to trolls is not more laws.
We should get better at just ignoring them. They want a reaction. Don't give them a reaction and they go away.
We have got very good at blocking spam. We can use the exact same techniques to reduce the impact of trolls. We can not get rid of tolls as completely as spam but we can do better than we are now.
If you can document that someone is harassing you online then you can contact their ISP and they will shut their account off. That is enough, you don't need to send this autistic kid to jail for 4 and a half months and legally ban him from posting on the Internet for 5 years.
Yes what he did was wrong, but put in perspective. There are worse things happening.
and that's why people aren't afraid enough, they are all taken care of too gently, not like in the past...
and the worst part is, all the people who gets away with their crime, gives a bad example to other sick people
after all, the men is the most dangerous animal...
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