Twitter trolling, should it be punishable?

[Yawn]

twitter trolls have been sent to jail

14 year old dutch girl been arrested for trolling american airlines

is it TOO MUCH?

[rnix]

If it is someone trolling a person then it should be punishable.
But american airlines? Thats a piss take

[MKR&*42]

Was she actually imprisoned or just taken to police station and held there cause like if you're imprisoned for trolling it's a tad far...

[Kyle]

depends how you define trolling and how far the individual actually goes.

[scottish]

No, if they're making threats directed at places then they should be punished similarly like they would if they went into an airport and said it.

[Futz]

What she did wasn't really trolling

It was a direct threat towards an airline

If something was to happen on that day and the airline did not investigate it, all hell would break loose

So yeah, she should get punished

[FlyingJesus]

"Trolling" isn't a crime but she could well have broken actual laws. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be arrested just for being annoying

oh yeah like that ^

[karter]

yes jail all the trolls i'm sick of the memes and the fedoras

[GommeInc]

Trolling isn't a crime but sending threats technically counts as harassment and can go as far as assault when death threats are made. What the 14 year old girl did was break anti-terror laws rather than actually troll. Trolling is usually done to annoy or upset people. Pretending to be a member of Al Qaeda messaging an airliner hinting towards a terrorist activity was only going to be met with problems - what else was she expecting?

[Yawn]

its just banter