Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls

Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls by appleflaxen on Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:30AM (#9165859)

Sexual criminals? really? for words on twitter? There is no question that this kind of behavior is repugnant, but should it really be illegal? The tweets I read are abhorrent, but hardly credible threats.

To me, the best kind of sanction for this is exactly what's happening: social shaming and exclusion. But it falls quite a bit short of something that requires legal involvement.

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Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls by mikegioia on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:17PM (#9166255)

I totally agree, the right course of action here is just good ol' fashioned public shaming. There's really no reason to bring the judicial system into this as it would be very taxing on that system to prosecute this type of behavior.

A good deterrent to making these kind of public comments is the social pressure of others around you knowing that you in fact act/think this horrible way.

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Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls by eveningcoffee on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:56PM (#9166416)

Yes, for words on twitter. We should not live in the world where any kind of rape threat is tolerable. Period.

This, or threat of murder or serious injury should be not acceptable in any form.

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