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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29641400

Social media - great until wider society started using it.

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Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:55 pm
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I was reading about that in the paper today. These trolls are total hypocrits.
The have a go at her for saying one thing about rape, but then say something much worse themselves on the same subject.

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Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:43 pm
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There are apparently lots of nasty people on the internet. Who knew?


Fri Oct 17, 2014 9:56 am
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29678989

Oh yeah, two years for a rape threat, say, when actual rapists don't get sentenced to that length of time, never mind serve it :roll:

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pcernie wrote:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29678989

Oh yeah, two years for a rape threat, say, when actual rapists don't get sentenced to that length of time, never mind serve it :roll:


Stop reading the Daily Mail. Ten seconds with Google can dismiss that fantasy.

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The average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for those offenders convicted of rape in 2011 was in excess of eight and a half years, an increase of nearly 21 months since 2005

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistic ... -and-wales


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pcernie wrote:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29678989
Oh yeah, two years for a rape threat, say, when actual rapists don't get sentenced to that length of time, never mind serve it :roll:

Well, as recent news suggests, they can get sentenced to about twice that and serve almost exactly that. So apparently the threat and the act are now interchangeable.


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Man jailed for antisemitic tweet to Labour MP
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... -labour-mp

You have to wonder how long he'd have gotten without all the links to Nazism.

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