Not really surprising after all the shit on Facebook with that ugly, fat bloke posting shit about dead kids.
Not really surprising after all the shit on Facebook with that ugly, fat bloke posting shit about dead kids.
Can't name anyone as such but people who ring police and ask for anon are taken seriously. OoOriginally Posted by Tsume
Hurr durr and how's she supposed to do that?
My Pimp Pants thread must be deleted before I am sentenced to life imprisonment for trolling of the finest quality. I trolled even before troll was used in that context.
Lol...exactly but was trying to be good there with my reply. =P
No, yours sucks.
School is mandatory, work/internet is not, there's a huge difference.
You get bullied on the internet? Leave. Get bullied at work? Quit. Get bullied at school? Yea, like you had a choice about weather or not you went to school when you were a kid.
It's rare that children and workers get bullied by higher ranks. Seriously, and if they even did get bullied by them, I'm sure their superiors have people higher too. It's the same with school, if a teacher bullies you, you don't just sit there and plan when your going to kill yourself you contact someone else of a higher authority such as the head teacher or whatnot. I didn't say School wasn't at risk of things like this, it happens near enough every day to somebody but they can tell people who are of a higher authority or good friends can't they.
Basically sums this up in (great) logic.
@Mike, you don't get a lot of children killing themselves because they are bully victims, and before you say anything read up. I wasn't saying they don't get bullied or kill themselves, I'm saying not a lot do. Just a heads up before you start off on me again. Also, if you were a bully victim as a child and some day when you were older and left school and reflected on the times you did get bullied, you wouldn't just kill yourself would you? Your past is your past and it can't be changed. You should have a positive outlook on your future, it's not often that you get people jumping off bridges/killing themselves 10 years later. Hence the reason why schools have the whole 'prefect' rank which you tend to go to if you need help.
Jamie you have a habit of opening your mouth and saying the wrong thing. Don't, please.
Guess you could argue this is a clampdown on freedom of speech but the fun part will be dictating what is considered to be a troll and what isn't. You could say you were being sarcastic, an ass for the sake of being an ass, all sorts of excuses. Good to see the Conservatives getting their priorities right.
I'll admit honestly, I don't like being proven wrong. Everything I seem to say tends to be a Debate, and from the PMs Mike sent I guess he made me change for the worst. Regardless, sorry for opening my mouth and causing the shit I have. I'll stick to Spamzilla and Debates.
Lol making Trolling illegal is pretty ridiculous imo. If you can't handle a couple petty little insults and someone challenging your intelligence and/or reputation, than you shouldn't be on the internet in the first place.
The "trolling" that is being banned isn't the usual "God you suck" or tricking someone into believing someone, it's the people who are making Facebook Groups celebrating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, or pages that celebrate the death of a child who has had some media attention.
Also who the fuck are we to decide who gets to use the internet or not?
Just playing devil's advocate here; who are the Government to decide to intervene on this? Should it not be the website owner who monitors this rather than a Whitehall quango?
Some people simply pass the point of normal human decency and yea once you do it should be illegal. You should not be allowed to expose other people to the kind of ignorant filth which this act/law is targeting without reaping a consequence.
If you get hauled off to jail for publicly slandering someone, why doesn't the same apply when you do it on the internet in front of MILLIONS of people?
I'm all for it.
Government aren't intervening, we have antiquated laws that haven't been brought into the new millenium. We have Public Order Offences in the UK that make it an offence to intentionally or recklessly cause Harassment, Alarm or Distress to anyone of sound mind. This new law will be including the internet as a public place, which it quite clearly is.
School's only mandatory up to a certain point. Work definitely is, how else will you be able to afford to live?
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I thought they changed the Law where you could drop out after your first year of being a Freshman. Last I heard they bumped it up to you have to be a Senior in order to drop out, which is pretty pointless since it's your last year unless you go to to college anyways lol Or maybe it was they haven't yet but are going to... One of the two.
There's a whole world of jobs out there. Plus workplaces have grievance procedures to deal with any employee complaints.Get bullied at work? Leave.
Yea, after which point you really shouldn't be getting bullied at that age. You choose where you work, if one place is shit go somewhere else. You don't have that option when you're a kid (i also keep saying "kid" on purpose, clearly i'm referring to primary/lower school) to just get up and change schools at your every whim. You also have specific laws to protect you from bullying and discrimination in the workplace, which do not exist for school.
School being mandatory is irrelevant at this point too, If you're going to drop out of high school because you're getting bullied, then you're just doing it wrong.
Just to point it out though, I am against this censorship. It's just that Jamie says the dumbest shit in every thread, and I wanted to challenge it.
Who the hell says it's the kid's own fault for going on the internet and getting trolled?
But yeah... Kid's kill themselves every day. Let's overlook it though, because it was their own fucking fault for clicking into an internet chat room/forum and getting trolled. Even if they did leave, they could still kill themselves.
Well, from experience I'd say it's the kid's fault. When I first used RaGEZONE I made the huge mistake of being 13 years old and trying to mingle in the what was the minefield of Spamzilla. I was slaughtered for being a cocky little brat and had the piss taken out of me all the time because of how I acted. Kids go onto the internet and think "Oh it's the internet, nobody can see or find me, let's me a dick" and do invite it upon themselves.
Trolls are pretty much lowest of the low, even though it can be fun and I've done it in the past. Some trolling is ok, but some people take it way too far and make idiots of themselves. +1 to this I guess, trolling should never have gotten this popular.
Who quits work because they get bullied? #1. Most people don't have the luxury of being able to jump from one job to another. #2. That's just pretty pathetic IMO.
Maybe they don't have the luxury, but the option is there and i personally know of multiple people who have left past employers due to unsavory activity/conduct, myself included.
What's the alternative, stay there taking abuse till you hang yourself? Yea, which one's more pathetic?
Saying it's the kid's fault for being trolled is kind of wrong, yes some people do bring it on themselves, but does that make it ok to troll some one to point that they'd want to end their life? I think not, and that's where this law should step in. People do those things because they KNOW no one's going to tell them otherwise. But this is the internet of course, we can do what we want without fear of prosecution right?
Yea... The internet should be a place where everyone and anyone can do what they want to who they want and get away with it scott free, simply because the trollee has the option of not using the internet.
I fail to see any kind of fair judgement here.
The more pathetic option in many cases is quitting when you have responsibility to feed your children or pay rent and have no other way of doing so. I could understand if the employer is the cause of the abuse, but otherwise you should be able to deal with it yourself either by working with management for a solution or confronting the bully about the behavior. I'm simply saying leaving work isn't an option for some people(such as single parents with no other available jobs to support their child). You can't just say "If you get bullied at work, then you need to leave." as if it's as simple as that.
You also can't say everyone has the option of not using the internet. A good example of a case of trolling is looking at the abuse Nexon US staff receives by the players. This is their job, but they are trolled relentlessly for the company's faults rather than their own. This goes back to the fact that quitting a job isn't simple. Which would you rather have? Innocent people losing jobs, or losing the freedom to harass people online?
You didn't even read the article, do you? You legitimately have no understanding of what this topic is actually about.
This act/law is designed so that instead of the website owners being liable for any offensive published material, they lose that liability if they instead hand over the identification of the perpetrators. Now if you're abusing people, you have every right to be shamed and blamed, regardless if it's online or not. This is also a UK-only law so i don't know why everyone's panties are in a knot.
We're talking about REAL abuse here, like laughing at people for having family members die, and publicly taunting them with shit like that. Like actual criminal behavior which you would be arrested for if you did it in person. We're not talking about petty name-calling and flaming. The point is that nobody should be allowed to use the Anonymity of the internet to mask malicious behavior.
If you pay rent and have children, i would hope you have some sort of education. You use those qualifications and find another job, preferably before you quit your current job as normal human beings do when in that situation. Don't start throwing in hypothetical scenarios which wouldn't happen in real life. Nobody who is in that specific situation would quit their job first and then look for another job while having children to take care of and bills to pay.
You're also extremely naive to believe that every company has some sort of "management" - 84.7% of all businesses in Western Australia are sole proprietorships ; 1 single owner with less than 3 employees, there is no "management" and there is no complaints department. If you are in an unsavory work environment, it's tough shit either you put up with it or your leave.
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