Twitters out of control IMO.


Its disgusting that she has to put up with this kind of anonymous abuse.

Seems Twitters had a lot of complaints about this so hopefully something good will come out of it.

There's a worrying lack of culpability building in our youth thanks to Twitter and Facebook's refusal to police itself.

Oh the irony when you dish out such accusations towards the McCanns.

Bollocks like that should be wiped from the internet too, busybodies believing they know facts.

To play devils advocate; whatever you think of the McCanns, they CHOSE to promote a massive media campaign around Madeleine, it has always been furthered and driven by them. They can't do that and also have mass speculation "wiped from the internet" ... The two just don't gel.

As for the issue of actual "trolls" - which I don't think is the right term, "trolling" was historically relatively harmless fun poking and winding people up (e.g. Rick Roll et al.) and things like this, and kids being tormented to the point of suicide, are way beyond that. It's criminal harassment, purely and simply. NOT making that distinction is making matters worse... People can't understand the difference between a benign wind-up and doing genuine harm and a line needs to be drawn, including in the terminology. They are not "trolls".

FACTS not bollox

Very sick people

That is actually vile, hope he gets caught, utter scumbag.

The threads about Denise Fergus, let's not sidetrack it.

this is one of the problems with the internet, good, bad and ugly,
freedom comes at a price!.
thankfully the number of good people are many and the bad are few.

I didn't mean it literally. Just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Whether they chose to make it a media campaign or not doesn't really have anything to do with people making up their own stories.

has the account been deleted

its trivial twitter nonsense thats all. theres a zillion more importan things to worry about

It's not trivial to some people it's hurtful, needless,and needs stopping

So true. When you think how young the Internet is, how quickly it's exploded and how little responsibility some sites take, it makes you realise it's like the Wild bloody West. Very little law and full of bandits.

Exactly...it's far from trivial. Keyboard warriors are the worst kind of cowards

Disgusting, hope they catch the moron behind it.

yes I think it is trivial to them too.

people write any filth they like on you tube and many other places, yet the police get involved in twitter over anything and eevrything? the whole thing is a sorry mess. how stan collymore ended up as the main news on bbc for being offended on twitter proves how pathetic shallow and confused this nation has become....that was clearly bigger news that day than war fmaine, murder etc

Well it's NOT

Unfortunately, it serves to remind you of all the sad, unstable creeps out there who belong in a padded cell. They are best ignored, as they feed of all the attention such remarks get them. They just advertise the fact they have serious mental health problems and their own lives are clearly sad and pathetic.

In America someone tweeted a picture of a gun last week and said 'if I get a 100 retweets I will shoot a pedestrian' he was arrested within the hour, so why can't the British police do the same?

It's changing slowly I think, there are those who scream about freedom of speech but when that entails abuse and harrassment then it's totally different.
That shouldn't be tolerated whether in person or via the internet.

youve said a lot of riske comments yourself on here, why I and many have found offensive, so why are you so judgemental about the odd silly comment on twitter

Like any sane person could ever make any kind of comparison between any comments made by the above poster and the appauling, malicious comments made by a clearly twisted individual towards a grieving mother - something you refer to as the 'odd silly comment'.

I think you need to develop a bit of self-awareness and analyize your own morality if you think such bile spouted by that creep was simply just 'the odd silly comment'.