More bad press for aspies

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It certainly doesn't stop someone from knowing his actions are against the law. It doesn't excuse anyone from knowingly breaking the law. But it might, in some cases, make it hard for someone to see why (for instance) having certain pictures should be a crime in the first place. We all deal with "laws" that aren't really expected to be strictly followed by everyone, and other laws that are dead serious and violators are generally considered Pure Evil (TM)... really black and white thinkers are going to have trouble telling the difference between the two. Still, if it's on the books and you get caught, you're pretty much SOL unless you can prove severe mental incapacity... and that's the way it should be.

Um... Those two things are one in the same, buddy. We can't protect "good" speech and not "bad" speech, because who determines which is which? If we're gonna play that game, then anything one doesn't agree with is "bad," and whatever they do agree with is "good." Once you go that route, be prepared to be silenced simply because someone doesn't agree with you.

Betcha my life is tougher than his and I don't do that. He needs to channel his energies into something more positive.

Ok so mocking and harassing someone is haveing "just an oppinion'. Got it.

If you have nothing good to say then it is better not to say anything at all, this has been said probably for centuries, but at what point is it allowed to be forgotten?

Once you own a newspaper?

Once you write a comment to a newspaper?

Once you print up leaflets?

Once you daub it all over the internet?

Just because the medium has changed, does not mean the law has...a death threat is still a death threat regardless of the medium it is carried by and if he had sent them one of those people would be arguing that it means little on the internet.

The simple fact is that his mocking and bullying and harrassment of these people happened, and the judge for once did the right thing and took a stance against it. If only more judges were like this and threw rioters in jail, vandals in jail, burglars in jail and took an absolutely no nonsense approach to similar as*holes who think they can get away with what they want.

It doesn't matter is he has aspergers, and I doubt he has and is simply using that as an excuse, as 20 years ago everyone tried to claim insanity. In 20 years doubtless everyone who wants to commit a crime will claim little green men put chips in their brain.

The good news is now that he's been to jail he might feel motivated to do something with his life besides drinking and trying to upset people online. What a waste of time that is!

Believe me he's already made us look bad with Asperger's Syndrome being mentioned.

I agree with this. Some things go beyond just being offensive and get into the realm of defamation. I've been cyber-stalked, my personal information dug up and posted and personal and professional defamatory comments posted in a public forum about me, and there was very little that I could do about it as a criminal thing (if I had the money to spend I could've taken the b*tch to court). It happened in 2005 and the harassment (over a freaking political issue) has stopped, but I agree that there should be more recourse for people who have been harmed in this way. The person involved didn't even care that I have three kids who could possibly be put at risk by her actions. There is a difference between plain-vanilla trolling and actually defaming someone, whether it be online or in print or verbally.

~Kate

I do not really want to toot my own horn here but I have been around the internet since around 1985 when it was very new, right up past the yahoo stage and beyond, everyone seems to think because they are from another country they are untouchable...

But I want to give a shout out to all the trolls out there, you are not.

Me, and moderators like me know who people are, we can track IPs and proxies and we are the big cats of the internet.

I have been moderating the internet for over 25 years, I have seen a hell of a lot and every time someone thinks they are hidden and I say nothing, I want you all to know you are known to me....you can not run, you can not hide and someday you WILL get caught.

I do not like fighting on the internet, I chase topics that interest me and answer occasionally but the one thing I hate is as*holes giving us all a bad name, people that purposely look for trouble belong in jail and I love to be accommodating.

Should people be allowed to protest outside of political party offices? That could be easily interpreted as "mocking and harassing". While yes, most people consider mocking a dead person to be in bad taste, as the other person said there is a subjective line that nobody can draw.

It is one thing to "protest" against an institution or organisation and quite another to taunt and cruelly mock specific individuals and families. If you can't see the difference there isn't much else to be said on the matter.

All this is moot anyhow. We have in England the "Malicious Communications Act" passed by our elected parliament. The CPS decided that there was a case for prosecution and the defendant didn't even contest the charges. Guilty and case closed.

I feel abit bad for the guy, true he was being a dickhead but according to the papers he's also an alcoholic recluse because of his social problems.

it's easy to chastise someone, but i'm sure more than most of the people on this forum know what it's like to be victimized and it's easy to lose perspective and consequence of ones' actions, especially on the internet.

if someone put me in jail for such a misdemeanour, knowing full well that i wouldn't exactly flourish in such an enviroment, i'm pretty certain i'd come out with a joseph konopka size grudge against society and even less empathy or sense of social morality than when i went in.

educate and fix someone who's borderline psychotic? nu uh, let's put them in a prison cell and see what that does to them first

Lots of us have social problems, so what? And alcohol is never an excuse. Is it a reasonable excuse when someone beats their wife? How about when they kill a child when drink driving?



Personally, having been the victim of bullying through much of my youth I know only to well what it is like to be on the receiving end. Consequently I wouldn't wish to inflict such misery on others. He too should know better.



I'm sure he's gone to one of the softer prisons, rather than one for more serious and violent offenders. One would hope that while there he gets some treatment for his issues as well a time to reflect upon his behaviour. He is not insane but responsible for his own actions as are we all.

I said it was easy to lose sight of perspective when you're trolling the internet, off your tits. you can't just turn the monitor off and go to bed after beating your wife or killing someone on the road. Well you can, but chances are you'll get woken up by the popo. I'll admit i was surprised when i found out he was 25, the whole thing sounded like a kid of about 14 or so.



becoming resentful, cynical and anti-social would imply that he's no longer capable of knowing better - speculative, but that's what this thread is turning into.



i didn't say he was insane, i said he was borderline psychotic - if you think that an aspie who shuts himself away, drinks himself to sleep and spends his hours defacing the dead infront of their relatives for personal amusement is entirely within the spectrum of healthy reality, by all means disagree - personally i could justify it quite easily, but then again I'm not the best advocate for what's morally reprehensible.

personally, i can't think of any productive outcome prison is going to have on such an obviously introverted man, besides adding to already obvious depression :/

wtf.....

...F##k this I'm going to live in a cave somewhere away from everybody else.