[Bardem]

"He drove me off Twitter, hacked my Facebook, and abused and terrified my family. Yet the biggest shock of all was meeting him"

I'm surprised he showed so much restraint in the end, at 17 I don't think it can be blamed squarely on juvenility...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...nfronted-troll

[Kentucky_Avenue]

Saw this the other day, quite a story.
'Trolling' doesn't seem an adequate enough word to describe what happened though. It was serious intimidation and harrassment that included getting the victim's home address and even making threats to his family. The police should have been notified.

[The Troll Toll]

Yeah that's a stalker not a troll.

[The Wild Youth]

That's terrifying... Oh my...

The 'Troll's' actions too with the stuff at the door...

Given me the heebeegeebees. Poor guy.

[Genocidal]

What a story. He's a fantastic man. It's nice to know that people can solve problems with words rather than calling in the police and an army of lawyers. If this was America he would of sued him, sued the mother for the crap cookies, and sued the father for aiding and abetting a criminal by giving him a laptop and access to the Internet.

[TheHansa]

He was so nice too the abuser as well. I honestly would have had him sent down.

[prog2djent]

"About how he'd become engrossed in conspiracy sites."

I know some little prick like this, 15 years old and thinks they know the system inside and out because of a few youtube videos and wingnut forums, I hate these people, hate them. And thanks to these conspiracy theories, they go hand in hand with the internet age, which means people know more and more about them, and I think anti-semitism is going to be on the rise in the future.

[ThatPerson]

I would have reported him, especially after the parcel that was physically mailed to his house. What I don't understand is, that if his IT friend easily tracked the IP Address of the person, why was it so hard for the "authorities" or the police? Surely they would've had access to more resources and been able to track the persons address?

I also this went way beyond "trolling" and was more like a hate crime.

It's just shocking tbh, especially his response "it was just a game".

[Cannotbelieveit]

Good read, however that kid's actions were so disgraceful I certainly wouldn't have let him off the hook.

[concubine]

As others have pointed out, this is not trolling. This is actual abuse.


Calling it trolling is wrong. Not just because it's not actually trolling, but because we seem to be increasingly heading towards something awful, an internet 'police state', where some of the things fundamental to the internet are lost.

Calling things like this 'trolling' is just going to increasingly confuse the already clueless politicians out there who will, in their typical knee jerk fashion, aim to STAMP OUT TROLLING and such foolishness, by which they essentially mean ruining the internet.

Yeah, deal with individuals like this and prosecute them, but leave trolls alone. So long as it's possible for individuals to block (or god forbid, ignore, like any mature person would) those that are offending or annoying them, there is no ****ing problem.

[joey11223]

I suppose it's down to a lack of resources but I'm quite surprised about the Police response. This guys friend tracked the perpetrator himself, surely the police could have done this as well? The guy has had genuine death threats sent to his address multiple times and has huge records of online abuse which is continuous, I'd have thought someone sending what appear to be genuine threats to someone's home address would have had more of a response then "yeah sucks to be you...nothing we can do tbh..". I imagine if his family had been attacked they'd have been a media storm out of it.

[Kittencat]

(Original post by concubine)
As others have pointed out, this is not trolling. This is actual abuse.


Calling it trolling is wrong. Not just because it's not actually trolling, but because we seem to be increasingly heading towards something awful, an internet 'police state', where some of the things fundamental to the internet are lost.

Calling things like this 'trolling' is just going to increasingly confuse the already clueless politicians out there who will, in their typical knee jerk fashion, aim to STAMP OUT TROLLING and such foolishness, by which they essentially mean ruining the internet.

Yeah, deal with individuals like this and prosecute them, but leave trolls alone. So long as it's possible for individuals to block (or god forbid, ignore, like any mature person would) those that are offending or annoying them, there is no ****ing problem.

This, a million times over.

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[JamesNeedHelp2]

Wow, what a insightful piece. It is nice to know that teenager got caught.

Edit: Wohoo this is my 1000th post. Party at my house, all is welcome.

[OedipusTheKing]

(Original post by Bardem)
"He drove me off Twitter, hacked my Facebook, and abused and terrified my family. Yet the biggest shock of all was meeting him"

I'm surprised he showed so much restraint in the end, at 17 I don't think it can be blamed squarely on juvenility...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...nfronted-troll

Ha just read this online. Was an interesting read to say the least, seemed the kid really became disconnected with his own humanity through anonymity.

[cl_steele]

props to him for taking it so well in the end. I mean sending abusive tweets isnt pleasant but when he started sending parcels to his address? Id drag the little **** to court for that...

[Shabalala]

the guys is the definition of a boss.

[diggy]

How could the kid think it was a "game"

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[Jack93o]

erm who the hell is this guy?

[rcummins1]

I appreciate this guys decision not to criminalise the 17 year old...sure, he got a bit carried away and absorbed into this 'trolling', but at 17 years old there's plenty of scope for him to turn his life around and be a good citizen. If he was say 30, then it'd be a different issue.

[Jack93o]

(Original post by Kentucky_Avenue)
Saw this the other day, quite a story.
'Trolling' doesn't seem an adequate enough word to describe what happened though. It was serious intimidation and harrassment that included getting the victim's home address and even making threats to his family. The police should have been notified.

the whole word seems misused nowadays