BREAKING NEWS » Tom Daley Twitter abuse

[sex]

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 :/

There is freedom of speech then there is fearing for your life because someone is made a threat to come drown you and beat you up lol

[Stephen]

Hardly gonna take a little kid who gives abuse to everyone on twitter seriously

tom daley is just a little cry baby ******

[xxMATTGxx]

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 :/

It isn't goodbye freedom of speech, you shouldn't be threatening to kill people. The media just missed that part out unfortunately.

Hardly gonna take a little kid who gives abuse to everyone on twitter seriously

tom daley is just a little cry baby ******

You do realise it probably wasn't even him who got the Police involved? The amount of tweets that was sent and most likely sent to the Police force who did arrest the person was the what triggered it.

[Shockwave.2CC]

I don't know why people are haters, because after all it's only the Olympics, it's not going to kill you if Team GB come last in everything. so people just need to chill

[dirrty]

whomever are talking about freedom of speech, the concept doesn't even truly exist anyway.

nevertheless, a threat is a threat. the fact that it's on twitter doesn't change anything, as social media is a flourishing new platform which is embedded into society; so it makes perfect sense to police its negative occurrences. afterall, threats over the phone would be treated the same way, and that mode of communication isn't that different from social media now, is it?

[Gibs960]

If you want freedom of speech, don't say racist comments are wrong.

I've not actually read the tweet yet, if it's some stupid little remark that's been made into a big thing I'm gonna be quite annoyed.

You let your dad down i hope you know that.

According to the Telegraph that's all it was. If the guy would have kept his mouth shut after the apology he wouldn't have had all this hate.

[dirrty]

If you want freedom of speech, don't say racist comments are wrong.

I've not actually read the tweet yet, if it's some stupid little remark that's been made into a big thing I'm gonna be quite annoyed.



According to the Telegraph that's all it was. If the guy would have kept his mouth shut after the apology he wouldn't have had all this hate.

he sent a barrage of tweets, not just one.

[GommeInc]

It isn't goodbye freedom of speech, you shouldn't be threatening to kill people. The media just missed that part out unfortunately.

Just read about that. The BBC, C4 and The Guardian completely missed all the important information out :/ They've been making it look as though Riley(?) only said "your father would be disappointed" which, although a little insensitive, wasn't against any laws and not offensive. But he seems to have a record of poor internet etiquette, and the actions taken out on him were deserved (though a bit unnecessary), even though Twitter should of intervened and not the police.

I understand he has been given a warning and sent home?

There is freedom of speech then there is fearing for your life because someone is made a threat to come drown you and beat you up lol

True, I only read the BBC, C4 and Guardian reports on the matter, which missed out a lot of important information.

That said, wouldn't you just ignore people who say these sorts of things? They clearly lack the metaphorical balls to confront you in person and hide behind a Twitter account

[xxMATTGxx]

Just read about that. The BBC, C4 and The Guardian completely missed all the important information out :/ They've been making it look as though Riley(?) only said "your father would be disappointed" which, although a little insensitive, wasn't against any laws and not offensive. But he seems to have a record of poor internet etiquette, and the actions taken out on him were deserved (though a bit unnecessary), even though Twitter should of intervened and not the police.

I understand he has been given a warning and sent home?

Yeah hes been given a warning and has been bailed. I believe other tweets are being investigated as well, hopefully he won't carry on and act like if hes invincible again.

[Lee]

I presume this will be a real wake up call for him and other trolls, action could just be taken against you. Well done for taking action I say.