Twitter trolling, should it be punishable?

[Matt]

I'm sure if she's 14, they will just make sure she's no threat and wasn't serious and then let her go after giving her a stern telling off? Are Facebook trolls punished? If Twitter trolls should be punished it's only fair that Facebook trolls get punished for offensive/threatening/abusive remarks too. I think it depends on the severity of the comment too tbh. Didn't that famous person commit suicide recently because of Twitter comments. I know the police do investigate Twitter comments quite a lot and there's been ones over here aimed at AFL players and the police have prosecuted them.

[Becca]

there's nothing wrong with trolling like other people but she did a stupid thing like wow who would even tweet that
what a loser

[Kardan]

There's a difference between trolling and threatening to blow up an airport.

[-:Undertaker:-]

There's a difference between trolling and threatening to blow up an airport.

But then there's also common sense - would somebody wanting to blow up an airport, aged 14, post it on Twitter?

[Kardan]

But then there's also common sense - would somebody wanting to blow up an airport, aged 14, post it on Twitter?

How do you know it's a 14 year old girl immediately without investigating?

[-:Undertaker:-]

How do you know it's a 14 year old girl immediately without investigating?

So a terrorist is going to pose as a 14 year old girl on Twitter before carrying out an attack?

Talk about paranoia, no wonder it's so easy for the government to take away our civil liberties nowadays. Like candy from a baby.

[Kardan]

And what would happen if authorities went 'Nah, it's only someone having a laugh' and then an attack did happen?

In this day and age I don't blame authorities for taking threats seriously. Better to be safe than sorry.

[-:Undertaker:-]

And what would happen if authorities went 'Nah, it's only someone having a laugh' and then an attack did happen?

In this day and age I don't blame authorities for taking threats seriously. Better to be safe than sorry.

With that argument you could ask why doesn't the state just strip us all down at the airport, conduct a rectal examination on everybody and install CCTV in every single house in the country because something COULD MIGHT WOULD happen. Better safe than sorry, right?

It's time to get real on security. Going after a 14 year old on Twitter is utterly ridiculous and an overreaction of epic proportions.

The state can't keep you safe anyway - it was the state which banned guns on planes which allowed 9/11 to happen after all.

[Kardan]

With that argument you could ask why doesn't the state just strip us all down at the airport, conduct a rectal examination on everybody and install CCTV in every single house in the country because something COULD MIGHT WOULD happen. Better safe than sorry, right?

It's time to get real on security. Going after a 14 year old on Twitter is utterly ridiculous and an overreaction of epic proportions.

The state can't keep you safe anyway - it was the state which banned guns on planes which allowed 9/11 to happen after all.

Are you proposing that 9/11 wouldn't have happened if guns were allowed on planes? The fact that one guy with a gun would have to take down 5 terrorists without missing once is pretty darn unlikely. Then for that to happen on all 4 planes?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Are you proposing that 9/11 wouldn't have happened if guns were allowed on planes? The fact that one guy with a gun would have to take down 5 terrorists without missing once is pretty darn unlikely. Then for that to happen on all 4 planes?

9/11 wouldn't have happened or would have been less likely to have happened had the pilots firstly been armed and trained OR had some passengers also been armed. Or just cabin crew for that matter. Absolutely. It's better to go down with a fight than to sit there like a dummy.

And can I ask with the security thing and terrorism, do you support racial/religious profiling in the name of safety then?