Trolling is a rather negative thing to do and can be extremely
consequential, People of this age can now hide behind a computer
to bully and abuse anyone they like - when normally most people
in there right mind wouldn't consider doing such a terrible thing.
"About 2,000 crimes related to online abuse are being reported
to the police in London each year, according to new figures."
19 September 2013
This was published more then a year ago and has almost definitely
increased.
There is already a law in place to prevent trolling but recently restrictions
have been mentioned to take place to prevent it further... This is Gary
Macfaydens comment on trolling
Gavin Macfadyen: Indeed, almost everyone that one speaks
to has no idea how you define this because jocular speech,
small-scale derisive remarks can cause the same moral panic
as this apparently does. Therefore, it is rather dangerous because
the whole thing is ballooning out of control. The sad thing is that
the laws already exist to deal with this. If you threaten somebody’s
life on the internet or you threaten them with a serious crime you
can be done for it, you can do prison time for that. So nobody
understands quite why are the laws being proposed in this way.
It is particularly savage because there is a degree of hypocrisy
about these charges of online terrorism. From the very people
who are bombing others around the world, it is a little strange.
There is a kind of moral panic here, a political panic, could be
seen by politicians to deal with what is really a small-scale
social problem.
They want to politicize these anti-social, these small incidents
of anti-social behavior which nobody excuses. They all are very
unpleasant. Nobody would like to be subjected to these things.
But they are tiny, they are small scale, they don’t represent a
social phenomenon. It is really a few extraordinarily unpleasant
individuals. But then to construct, as they appear to be doing,
a whole set of laws of a draconian kind is most peculiar and
it raises the sense that they very much wanted to increase the
number of laws available on the internet to stop criticism, to
stop people who say things they don’t like. It seems to me and
for many others here that the internet is a public place, it is not
a private place. And in any public place there is a role for criticism,
there is a role for taking a different view... And that has to be protected
for anybody, no matter what they politics are. So what we have to
do I think is to teach people how to anonymize themselves, how to
be anonymous on the internet if they really want a peaceful life and
they don’t want to engage in social dialogue. They have to find a
place in a private sector of the internet… to conduct their affairs.
The new law to take place says internet trolls can now face a sentence of
two years in prison.
"In England and Wales, the Malicious Communications Act 1988
covers comments that cause "distress or anxiety". Similar legislation
applies in Northern Ireland. "
Katie Hopkins is a victim of trolling but oddly enough she see's it as
quite trivial and not to take it on the shoulder.
joke and it shouldn't be taken seriously whereas sonia on the left
believes it is a serious threat and is dangerous. I mean if someone
threatens to rape you be it in real life or the virtual it is still an
extreme threat and should be handled by the police...
Brenda Leyland
Brenda Leyland had been trolling the Mccann Family (Madeline Mcann)
she had sent thousand of abuse and threatening tweets to the family.
Unfortunately at the beginning of october Brenda Leyland was found dead
in her hotel room supposedly due to being outed on sky news for what she
had done, the guilt so bad that she killed her self it is arguable that
she was actually trolling or just well opinionated.
"The second problem is that the word “troll” has become shorthand for
describing any behaviour online that may cause offence. It conjures up
strong feelings of repulsion and disgust, and doubtless some watching
a bewildered Leyland trying to escape the TV news team last week will
have felt a grim satisfaction, and thought to themselves: “She shouldn’t
dish out what she can’t take.”
Was she really a troll? You decide.
Outed Trolls and there responses
When watching this video I felt disturbed that he had only slight
remorse as to what he had participated in, he does seem apologetic
but not quite enough.
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