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Do you think that harassment and assault comments on social media sites are worthy of the perpetrator facing criminal charges?
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Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
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Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Chris Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:29 am
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Forgiveness Man Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:33 am
It'd have to be really extreme because in our touchy-feely culture, saying that a particular politician sucks could be viewed as threatening.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Alan Smithee Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:42 am
Chris wrote:Do you think that harassment and assault comments on social media sites are worthy of the perpetrator facing criminal charges?
Possibly. If someone can be prosecuted for saying something threatening, why not for writing it? If you're that stupid to virtually say it to the world instead of one person, you kind of deserve what you get.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Shale Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:43 am
Alan Smithee wrote:Possibly. If someone can be prosecuted for saying something threatening, why not for writing it? If you're that stupid to virtually say it to the world instead of one person, you kind of deserve what you get.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Tony Marino Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:40 pm
Absolutely.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Supernova Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:20 pm
It's a crime of prevention, they don't know if there is any intent to back up what is said, and let's face it, as many stupid comments are going around in cyber space, about 90% of the world ought to be arrested. I can't count how many times I had people PM me saying they were going to cut my stomach to ribbons, rape me, etc. and did anything happen? No. Would I have called the police if they kept up? No, why? Because I never believed there was any merit to any of them.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by CatEyes10736 Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:32 pm
Depends on how extreme the harassment is. If someone goes out of their way to block the person who is harassing them, while that person goes out of their way to continue to do it under other names, locations, IP addresses and so forth, then perhaps. But it would need to be something that blatant. Just someone being an asshole in their comments isn't enough for charges, IMO.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Nystyle709 Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:38 pm
Chris wrote:Do you think that harassment and assault comments on social media sites are worthy of the perpetrator facing criminal charges?
Nah. It would have to depend, but in general, no. You can always turn off the computer. I call Facebook the devil a lot, and it is, because social media has really made this society and our culture fucking stupid for the most part. It's like all common sense goes out of the window when people exert all of their time and energy online. People don't think anymore.
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Re: Criminal charges for social media comments that are harassing or threatening?
by Marc™ Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:12 pm
No. Just block them. Harassing somebody in their personal email is the only time I could see going that route.
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