Internet Trolling...should it be a criminal offence

[JimboUK]

People who play video games and go on forums are weak!

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Thinking you should not show remorse for people who kill themselves due to bad parenting as well as them giving away their information = wanting weak people to die

 

Bullying over a prolonged period can cause serious psychological problems, that said there are ways to lessen the problem, don't live your life on Facebook and use the tools the likes of Facebook and Twitter provide to block fools and remove their "contributions".

 

Yep, and this also means that the site staff who've set up rules ought to apply them. There's currently a problem on certain large networking sites where racist harassment and other serious things aren't taken care of in the least, so we've got a problem with people not honouring agreements, which is a contractual duty and nothing to do with the criminal law--unless there's mandatory reporting for site owners/admins in certain cases, that is, and then getting in trouble for failure to report is enough.

 

The problem is the sheer number of users, Facebook has over a billion, they can't be moderated in the same way as sites like this. I would imagine they also get a ton of silly complaints from over sensitive souls or those who just disagree with someone's opinion. The simple answer is don't put your personal business on these sites in the first place or set them up as friends only.