Online forums are letting "criminal activity go unchecked"

[Troll]

a review of laws surrounding the "significantly increasing" problem of online abuse is urgently needed, former culture secretary maria miller says.

FOAD
HTH

[AtW]

No puffins were harmed in the generation of this tag cloud.

At least none we know of...

[unixman]

Online abuse is a problem, mostly for the famous (look at Gary Lineker's time line, or the McCann trolls). Some want to use this problem to have a law passed which says "it is illegal to critisize or contradict X", where X is most commonly "the left" or just "my cause". Such a law would be far, far worse than the online abuse we currently tolerate. Society must retain the right to tell some people to just **** off.

IMO online abuse should be dealt with like on-street abuse. Harass a citizen in the street and you will be quickly dealt with for "threatening and abusive" behaviour. Same should apply on line. However, those who make their living from the law, (including large parts of the govt.) always want more laws because it means more business. And passing new laws is popular. Enforcing existing ones isn't.

[MarillionFan]

Online abuse is a problem, mostly for the famous (look at Gary Lineker's time line, or the McCann trolls). Some want to use this problem to have a law passed which says "it is illegal to critisize or contradict X", where X is most commonly "the left" or just "my cause". Such a law would be far, far worse than the online abuse we currently tolerate. Society must retain the right to tell some people to just **** off.

IMO online abuse should be dealt with like on-street abuse. Harass a citizen in the street and you will be quickly dealt with for "threatening and abusive" behaviour. Same should apply on line. However, those who make their living from the law, (including large parts of the govt.) always want more laws because it means more business. And passing new laws is popular. Enforcing existing ones isn't.

Shut it, or I'll kick your 'ead in.

[Bee]

Yeeeeee Haw!

This sound like Speedy Gonzalez to me.

[Troll]

IMO online abuse should be dealt with like on-street abuse. Harass a citizen in the street and you will be quickly dealt with for "threatening and abusive" behaviour. Same should apply on line.

Fook off you limp wristed, shandy drinking wankpuffin,

[northernladuk]

Fook off you limp wristed, shandy drinking wankpuffin,

The idea when abusing someone online is to make it up. Calling a spade a spade isn't abuse.

[unixman]

Shut it, or I'll kick your 'ead in.

That's a threat, not abuse. Threats are a no-no and even the professional Trolls avoid them. This one was obviously a joke though.

The troll "problem" is really just an "anonymity" problem. If a way could be found for everybody's online comments to be accompanied by their name and address (somehow), abuse would virtually come to a halt. I am not quite sure if this would be a good thing or not. People are ashamed if their dodgy online behaviour comes to light, becomes known to their families, peers, employers. One of the McCann trolls was sadly driven to suicide by impending exposure ("sweepyface").

I'm talking about real, professional Trolls here. ie. oddballs who spend 24 hours online following a single celeb and flooding their time lines with incoherent swear words or depraved nonsense. They think they are attacking the celeb, when in fact they are rotting away our free speech. If these proposals made it into law, the Trolls might go away but the SJW's (an even nastier bunch) would become our masters, and critisizing them or contradicting their views would become illegal.

I am not talking about trolling with a small t, which is quite common/funny and happens everywhere and even on this page.

[unixman]

The idea when abusing someone online is to make it up. Calling a spade a spade isn't abuse.

I'd love to stay and troll nluk like a boss, but it's 23:31. Tell you what, come back on Monday I'll see what I can do.

[Troll]

That's a threat, not abuse. Threats are a no-no and even the professional Trolls avoid them. This one was obviously a joke though.

The troll "problem" is really just an "anonymity" problem. If a way could be found for everybody's online comments to be accompanied by their name and address (somehow), abuse would virtually come to a halt. I am not quite sure if this would be a good thing or not. People are ashamed if their dodgy online behaviour comes to light, becomes known to their families, peers, employers. One of the McCann trolls was sadly driven to suicide by impending exposure ("sweepyface").

I'm talking about real, professional Trolls here. ie. oddballs who spend 24 hours online following a single celeb and flooding their time lines with incoherent swear words or depraved nonsense. They think they are attacking the celeb, when in fact they are rotting away our free speech. If these proposals made it into law, the Trolls might go away but the SJW's (an even nastier bunch) would become our masters, and critisizing them or contradicting their views would become illegal.

I am not talking about trolling with a small t, which is quite common/funny and happens everywhere and even on this page.

In the name of God STFU

Regards

Alex
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