BREAKING NEWS » Tom Daley Twitter abuse

[Shar]

Arresting a guy over a twitter comment..glad to see the police doing their job.

edit; reading further into it, that guy did deserve it. Wish other worse cases were dealt like this too though ;/

[Absently]

a girl not so long ago killed herself, partly because of the **** that was said to her. those criminals are still walking free.

[xxMATTGxx]

Unfortunately the media missed out the important parts which most likely led to the arrest of the person. Which did include death threats to more than one person.

[GoldenMerc]

Just a claim for fame really.

[Oleh]

Target a celebrity - get arrested!

Target a normal civilian - nothing happens!


Typical really isn't it. If telling someone they let their dad down is an arrestable offence why are 'Beliebers' and 'Directioners' (not all, just some) allowed to tell people to go and die just for not supporting their idols? As much as I don't think it's right, they shouldn't be more lenient towards celebs when other people get by with no consequences whatsoever. It's just not good enough.

A celebrity holds an elevated position in society whereby people admire them and idolise them. People sending death threats is a bit more serious when thousands of people including the police take them seriously and act without a report, where as if say you or I got threatened on Twitter, nobody would notice and it'd go past like a empty plastic bag.

Plus they can't go around arresting every pre-pubescent teenager for making empty threats, where as a single adult making threats is a big more serious.

[ISniffCheese]

Ignore the family guy edited bit.

Thread merged by Chris (Forum Super Moderator): As a thread is already discussing this!

[Kyle]

"my account got hacked"

lol...... wat.....

---------- Post added 31-07-2012 at 06:29 PM ----------

just looked and this was an 'apology' for previous action, posted over three weeks ago. lmao

[ISniffCheese]

"my account got hacked"

lol...... wat.....

---------- Post added 31-07-2012 at 06:29 PM ----------

just looked and this was an 'apology' for previous action, posted over three weeks ago. lmao

I just saw that hahaha my badddd

[Mark]

He posted this ages before he got arrested did he not?

[GommeInc]

Unebelievably pointless and Daley surrendered any sense of professionalism over this. It's such a non-story and I can't believe they arrested someone. Good bye freedom of speech :/