[Roving Fish]

Are people like Tom Daley oblivious to the block button!?

Tom retweeted it for attention, if I received death threats I would first block them then flag him up about it - you can even report tweets, can't you?

#celebrities

[Jono404]

Irony of him threatening to get sky news done for harassment at the same time as he threatened to kill everyone is an absolute touch.

[When you see it...]

What law did he break? I think we should get rid of it.

[Llamageddon]

(Original post by AnthonyShock)
There are drug addicts on the streets in my area beating up innocent people and the police don't do anything about it.

They shouldn't be concerning themselves with petty trolls, there are bigger fish to fry.

Usually because the best they have to go on is low-grade circumstantial evidence and know arresting the drug addict would lead to an expensive court case that wouldn't even achieve a conviction, and if it did would merely act as a small blot on an already incredibly blotted resume, or an unpaid and tiny fine.

This is in the media, fits the description of section 5 and so they'll take it to court.

[Llamageddon]

(Original post by When you see it...)
What law did he break? I think we should get rid of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassm...rm_or_distress

it's a really bloody useful law for the police to do their job tbh.

[Stevo112]

a quick google search for the troll in question seems to suggest that this may not be an isolated case from him..

Still not sure it is enough to warrant an arrest, but yea.

[That Bearded Man]

If you're arrested for a racist tweet, I see no reason why you shouldn't be arrested for that kind of tweet.

[Libertarian_Walrus]

Do we have any freedom of speech anymore? Punishing people for what they say, is a step towards tyranny.

[Golden_Boy786]

These things never happened when twitter wasnt produced. Such a shame as Britain goes through all that effort in setting up the Olympic games, then you see idiots making a fool of themselves on social networking sites.

[Studentus-anonymous]

Funny, police send a nab-squad to pick up a guy saying mean things on the internet but god help me if my place gets burgled, if I see an officer it'll be for ten minutes and never hear from them again.

Olympics have really messed up the UK's priority, life goes on outside of London and it's Olympic venues.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

(Original post by Libertarian_Walrus)
Do we have any freedom of speech anymore? Punishing people for what they say, is a step towards tyranny.

It's not the same when you direct your freedom of speech towards someone in a distressing matter. Hence he was arrested for hasrrassment.

[+ polarity -]

(Original post by Golden_Boy786)
you see idiots making a fool of themselves on social networking sites.

I think this has been happening since before MySpace.

[Jono404]

Regret following this story as I've now ended up clicking around twitter, finding out who people like Olly Riley are and seeing just how ****ing vacuous everyone on there seems to be. I'm glad social networking only really caught on once I was out of my teens because I can imagine it just making me feel incredibly isolated and alone if I were 16 again.

[lukas1051]

I think when more details come out it will be clear why he was arrested. As I said earlier in the thread, this guy was sending genuine death threats to other users for months beforehand, the Tom Daley tweet was tame compared to some of the stuff he posted, I did post a link to some of the tweets at the bottom of page 3. I full support freedom of speech, but when you're sending genuinely distressing and threatening things to specific people over a period of time that's overstepping the line.

[wolf-pack]

I wonder if his arrest is also related to an abusive video he uploaded to youtube a few weeks ago where he was saying threatening things towards another twitter user- the video has been blocked overnight which makes me think that it is involved.

[+ polarity -]

(Original post by Jono404)
Regret following this story as I've now ended up clicking around twitter, finding out who people like Olly Riley are and seeing just how ****ing vacuous everyone on there seems to be. I'm glad social networking only really caught on once I was out of my teens because I can imagine it just making me feel incredibly isolated and alone if I were 16 again.

[rock_climber86]

as vile as his tweets are i personally believe it's over the top. I am a firm believer of freedom of expression and people shouldn't be arrested for tweeting stuff. They should just have their accounts banned and leave it at that. This has been blown out of all proportions!


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[lukas1051]

(Original post by Jono404)
Regret following this story as I've now ended up clicking around twitter, finding out who people like Olly Riley are and seeing just how ****ing vacuous everyone on there seems to be. I'm glad social networking only really caught on once I was out of my teens because I can imagine it just making me feel incredibly isolated and alone if I were 16 again.

Yeah, try knowing him in real life...

[laura1234]

It's disgusting what was said to Tom Daley on twitter and I think its right that he is punished (banned and named and shamed in the media maybe) but if it was anyone else (i.e just a regular twitter user getting all of those tweets) then the police would probably do nothing about it.

[Jono404]

(Original post by lukas1051)
Yeah, try knowing him in real life...

He's playing the victim regarding what was said about his sister (which is harsh) but there are screens of him insulting girls and the like.