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Tweet discovered and within next to no time the alleged offender was caught. So many people think that they are anonomous on the interent. However, the powers that be can find you very quickly and there are ofences that you can be charged with.

Phil

The lad had done a You Tube rant as well threatening Tom Daley and stuck that on Twitter for everyone to see.

Recently there was the case of a Welsh student who posted racist and vile tweets about Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba and got jailed for 56 days. Totally right as well. Again i watched it on going on Twitter at the time and how people were warning him that he was gonna be in big trouble, and he just responded by giving those people abuse. About 2 hours later he tried to back track and said his account was hacked. It was a bit too late for that though.

Im all for a bit of banter but theres a line that shouldnt be crossed but theres plenty of trolls on Twitter who think they can just post what they want, and quite simply they cant.

Quote: Originally posted by martytoon on 31/7/2012

Quote: Originally posted by raftguid1977 on 31/7/2012i understand racism, i understand discrimination, but what the hell is going on in this world when someone can twitter negative stuff and get arrested Orson wells would be rolling in his grave right now.

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so you can only be abused and have something done now if your famous what a joke.

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The individual concerned actually posted a specific death threat - that is why the police took action

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I had a facebook account and have now completely got rid of it. Fed up with so much rubbish it was never worth it as far i was concerned. Even some of the family were a nuicance and told them why. If they want to contact me use the phone and no text as i only have the mobile when out of the house. It appears to me if have a  twitter or facebook have to more or less accept what goes on. Not right I aggree.

WG