There is something seriously wrong with people like that. They need tracking down and possibly locking up for the protection of the general public.

I would imagine every celeb who is on TV gets horrid abuse on a daily basis via Twitter?

Oh I know but I do think it will be a bit of a deterrent atleast

There is abuse then plain right evilness attacking a disabled boy unable to fight back or shut it out

Here is a question, should it be against the law for someone to vocalise their thoughts and opinions in the privacy of their own home? Where does one draw the line, should it be against the law to have anything other than pure and harmless thoughts?

I don't disagree necessarily with some troll behaviour being made illegal, but i do wonder where all this is going to end up.

You may say i'm exaggerating or whatever, but we are only a short period away from linking thought to computer interaction, its going to become a real issue very soon.

I think what is the problem is that say Twitter has allowed people to publish what they say in the privacy of their own homes and its just taking time for people to realise that "wait, but that is not ok because everyone can see it"!

This is not the issue in question, there is a world of difference between having a conversation in your house expressing an opinion and messaging a person directly stating I am going to do 'xyz' to you, can you not see this?

It's not even nearly comparable :/

Broadcasting those opinions publicly or sending abuse directly to a person to bully them is not a conversation in the privacy of your home.

Stop purposely acting obtuse.

TBH I just hope they're sensible about it when it comes to kids / teens, and only pursue something if there is a genuinely vicious / sustained / deliberate attack going on.

Kids and teens do and say stupid things... it not going to help anyone to start dishing out criminal records for it.

I mean, when I was like 15 I guessed the security password on a classmate's hotmail account and saw a bunch of e-mails he'd been sending to various girls across the globe making various wild claims (most popular kid in school, in a band, captain of the football team... etc.) and - naturally - I told all of my friends. And... well... everyone else in our year :umm2: and people mocked the guy relentlessly about it. He went to a teacher and I ended up being pretty thoroughly grilled in the head teacher's office about "hacking" :joker:...

Obviously, not my proudest moment but I was a daft 15 year old, and also all of the crap with my mum (the start of her drinking, and losing her career) was going on at home so I just didn't really give a **** about anything at the time or any real perspective.

The authorities getting involved in these things when it's kids is a step too far, in my opinion. I've been on both sides of it tbh; someone at my school made a little chatroom thing that people used to go on, and I remember some "older kids" (18/19 year old sadsacks) coming on and threatening harassing people loads. Though I was all...

https://media.giphy.com/media/26gIOE...iQEw/giphy.gif

And invited them to come to the school and seek me out at break time :laugh:. Because again of the not giving a ****. I was such an arsehole teenager.

But... yeah. Isn't stuff like this all sort of part of being a teen / figuring out the world, and people?

They left have been destroying free speech for decades, apart from hate speeches from fundamental islamists

If that wasn't so true it would be laughable :bawling:

Phone ofcom.

Good thing. Abuse isn't accepted in person so it shouldn't be accepted on social media.

Obviously they're referring to bullying, stalking, incessant abuse type situations. Not comments on Holly Willoughhy's weight on Twitter I imagine.

Hopefully only enforced in extreme and obvious examples of online abuse and harassment.

If someone gets arrested for tweeting "Katy Perry is an evil bitch" then we can worry.

*deletes MailOnline persona

Daniella Westbrook is thrilled you will no longer be first in line to comment each time she gets a new nose.

Poor Smithy spending the next 5 years behind bars

I'm surprised there was a debate on this. Seems obvious to me; internet trolls need some sort of punishment.

Obviously a common sense approach will need to be implemented, so only the worst or most persistent gets punished, but some people simply exist online just to be a **** to as many victims as possible. They need arresting or fined.

You're kidding. There's a bunch of things I'd like to say to you and a few others on here but I'm not allowed. You, for example, can say a bunch of hateful things about women, but if I call you out, I have to be extra careful with how I do that without risking you and others reporting me.

If you hate 'none freedom of speech' what the fcuk are you doing on here?

You're ****ed Adam

I COULDNT GIVE A BASTARD BOLLOCKS ANYWAy

please do not undermine the mods and admin who do an excellent job on tibb

ban ALL social media, even better.

I think there is a big difference between taking the piss out of how someone looks and death threats, death threats should be treat very seriously. Imagine how it would be if everyone was nice to everyone and everyone only had nice things to say about others or everyone agreeing on every single thing on social media. If people can't take criticism they shouldn't be in the public eye. Death threats however is a whole other story. I would welcome serious repercussions for that.

Im suprised 1984 by George Orwell hasnt been banned?

This is thought crime!!

Will this only work one way? will it include YOUTUBE comments which are the worse...