Internet trolling is a criminal offense

Of course, the concept of "trolling" is not straightforward, and this definition can get quite a number of acts committed by Internet users. However, the criminal codes of all civilized countries of the actions aimed at causing moral harm (namely that, by and large, and doing without exception trolls) provides for liability.

This fact did not consider 25-year-old Briton Sean Duffy, whose favorite pastime was to mock the Internet over the dead or committed suicide by teenagers. Duffy, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, he was repeatedly insulted and humiliated by classmates at first, and later colleagues. In the end, Duffy resigned and shone all his time to his hobby.

Troll regularly visited the memorial page of adolescents and leave them comments like "I fell asleep on the tracks, LOL», «sold a used car." He also posted a video on YouTube entitled "Natasha-train", dedicated to Natasha Makbraydt, who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train.

Duffy worked with enthusiasm that created the fake memorial page disfigured faces of those killed in Photoshop, in general "creativity" in all. For which he was, after all, in jail: court did not appreciate the creative impulses and troll sentenced to 18 weeks imprisonment. After his release, Duffy will not be allowed to use social networks as early as 5 years.

via factroom.ru