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Why is the Tom Daley tweeter being questioned by police ?
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I don't get it. Admitted, what he said was not pleasant, but it was only an opinion. Just how sanitised do people's comments have to be ?
Or am I being too insensitive ?
I don't get it. Admitted, what he said was not pleasant, but it was only an opinion. Just how sanitised do people's comments have to be ?
A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter.
After coming fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old received a message telling him he had let down his father.
Daley's father Rob died in May 2011 from brain cancer.
Sir Clive Woodward, the Deputy Chef de Mission for Team GB, said Daley was taking the incident "in his stride".
Or am I being too insensitive ?
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there's more to it then the hating
I don't know, did he ?
I haven't read that. Just that he said Tom had let down his Dad.
Have the police got nothing better to do than protect peoples feelings.
Personally I agree, the fact everyone knows who he is and what he said will be with him for ever, the ********, but the police have to do their job.
It's only wasting police time if Joe 6 Pack is the victim, not one of our athlebrities.
When other folk told him to wise up, he said he'd hunt them down and shoot them.
I reckon that half witted ninnies who witter thus on Twitter aren't actually making death threats, but I suppose that one day, someone will and they'll act on it and that's when everyone will be up in arms that the police did nothing.
I wouldn't describe it as an 'opinion'? It's not as if he thought "I wonder if his father would feel let down by that performance? Yes I think he would and I should let him know".
He did it to insult Daley and cause hurt and upset, nothing else!
Besides that isn't what he was arrested for anyway was it? I'm pretty certain he was threatening people and giving abuse to all and sundry. Including racist comments.
If he did say that, then case closed. It is right that he be arrested. But the BBC article makes zero mention of it, for whatever reason. It merely mentions the insult, making the arrest look absurd.
Twitter and Facebook are relatively new. A bit like when we first got the motor car. It was probably some time before drink drive laws came along. Now it seems to make total sense.
What should and shouldnt be done and said on the internet needs to be taught in school from now on. Idiots like this think they can do and say what they like. Well clearly they CANT and SHOULDNT.
He went into other areas not only about Tom.
its time twitter got cleanedup people think they can just go on there say whatever they like
yet step out the door and do the same you get arrested.
This isnt just a case of PC gone made he's said some pretty horrendous comments
The tweeter has been given a police warning.
http://news.sky.com/story/967096/teenager-held-over-daley-tweets-given-warning
I saw his video clip BB. Can confirm that he did say these things. A complete tosser.
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Having seen some of the other stuff he posted, I bet he's bricking it.
I think it might be more for the threats he made.
The 'malicious tweets' they showed were the 'letting your dad down comment' followed by a series of apologies by the poster and I thought well, this is all a bit of a storm in a teacup.
Wasn't aware he posted threats though.
EDIT: Forgot to add that I read he has made racist remarks days ago?
According to the thread in the Olympics section that video wasn't about Tom Daley.
If that's true, it only makes him look worse. If he exhibits a pattern of behaviour that involves violent threats and racial abuse, all the more reason for the police to get involved.
I've heard people try to excuse him as a 17 year old boy mouthing off, but it's not as if 17 year old boys never attack people. He may never show the initiative to track down and attack the people he harasses on Twitter, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's been violent towards people he actually knows.
And he won't be 17 forever. It's because people excuse the antisocial behaviour of little toerags as mere immaturity that they grow up to become criminals. A little discipline and a stern talking to from the police is exactly what people like him need.