Welsh soccer player arrested for tweeting anti-gay remarks at Tom Daley

[General of Darkness]

So let me get this straight. Bankers and politicians are destroying fricken nations, but if you tweet something that I consider chore boy bullshit gets you arrested. I don't think there's much time left before TSHTF.

Welsh soccer player arrested for tweeting anti-gay remarks at Tom Daley (http://www.dailydot.com/news/tom-daley-welsh-soccer-player-twitter-arrest/) August 03, 2012




Twitter (http://www.dailydot.com/communities/twitter/) — The Welsh soccer player who tweeted a homophobic remark (http://www.dailydot.com/news/welsh-soccer-homophobic-tweets-tom-daley/) at Olympic diver Tom Daley has been arrested.

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http://dailydot.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/b2/57/b2577a11fe502fc36ee4a6f382d895f6.jpg Welsh soccer player under investigation for homophobic tweets about Tom Daley



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Daniel Thomas, who plays for the Port Talbot Football Club in Wales, tweeted Tuesday a remark toward the British diving duo of Daley and Peter Waterfield. saying the pair can go “bum each other” following their failure to medal.


On Thursday, South Wales police issued a statement (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/08/03/tom-daley-gay-hate-tweet-footballer-arrested/) declaring they “arrested a 28-year-old man from the Port Talbot area in connection with offensive comments made on the social networking site Twitter.”


The police did not name the person arrested, but a team official confirmed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19095923) with BBC News that it was Thomas. The midfielder was released on bail Wednesday.


“We've taken legal advice and, when the police inquiry is concluded, we will deal with it from then,” a team official said.


Thomas said he left his phone unattended and that the tweet was a prank. He apologized (http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Port-Talbot-man-arrested-offensive-tweet-diver/story-16641572-detail/story.html) on his now-shuttered Twitter account, @10DanThomas10. The team has also apologized, saying it in no way condones Thomas’s actions.


Thomas is the second person confirmed arrested for harassing Daley on Twitter. A U.K. teenager was arrested July 30 (http://www.dailydot.com/news/tom-daley-twitter-teen-arrested-riley69/) for threatening to down the Olympic diver in a pool.

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[vacuum]

These people need to get off the internet.



Pressure grows on Twitter to curb abusive 'trolls'



TV and sports stars demand action over vicious tweets



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Sunday 05 August 2012


Calls for Twitter to clamp down on so-called "trolls" sending abusive hate messages via the social networking site intensified yesterday after a string of high-profile attacks on famous names including the diver Tom Daley. Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati, and the Conservative MP Louise Mensch. Even the father of Daley's internet abuser said the company needed to take action to stop the disturbing practice.

Their appeals came after a flurry of Twitter vitriol attracted police and public attention last week. The first incident involved the teenage Olympian Tom Daley, who received a string of malicious tweets from 17-year-old Reece Messer after he missed out on a medal. Appearing under the Twitter name "Rileyy_69", the messages also referred to Daley's father, Rob, who died of cancer last year.
One said: "You let your dad down I hope you know that", while another threatened to drown the sports star. The BBC Olympics presenter Gary Lineker revealed shortly afterwards that he felt "physically sick" after a Twitter troll mocked his son George over his childhood battle with leukaemia. The 23-year-old swimmer Rebecca Adlington and 18-year-old weightlifter Zoe Smith have also received taunts. And last Thursday the Blue Peter host Helen Skelton decided to quit Twitter completely because of the abuse she was receiving.

The latest attacks have prompted fresh calls for a stricter clampdown on the social networking site.
Ms Gulati, who has also abandoned tweeting to escape bullying, said it was about time the firm took action to solve the troll problem. "Twitter is a great social networking tool, but they need to examine their methods," she said. Ms Gulati left the site after trolls posted mutilated photographs of her and sent a stream of racist comments. One tweeted insult read: "You're not British, you're foreign." Another said: "You have got to be the ugliest fucker I've seen."
Ms Gulati said: "It was horrific. It's nasty, abusive and scary. It throws you off balance – people are not what they seem." She said she had previously enjoyed being on Twitter because of the human interaction. "I really enjoyed Twitter and thought it was a fun thing. It gave me access to people that I wouldn't normally have access to. I was known as a re-tweeter and that was one of the reasons I was on there, to re-tweet and promote people's good causes. I loved communicating with people who loved Corrie and the other programmes I was in."

read more (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/pressure-grows-on-twitter-to-curb-abusive-trolls-8007756.html)

[Skirnir_]

Twitter is primarily used by twits; let them reap what they sow.

[AndreaGail]

this is truly out of hand

two other similar stories of note,

A German rower was sent home because it was uncovered that her boyfriend was simply a member of the BNP

A Lithuanian basketball fan was arrested and fined because he was making "racist remarks and noises"

[mamboni]

Using Twitter or any internet social networking is akin to putting yourself in The Truman Show. There is no privacy because the f-ing control freaks in charge don't respect you as an individual nor your right to privacy. They will tell you what you can say, eat and do. It is for your own good, don't you know, goyim. Everyone needs to unplug, reject the banks, and crash the system.

[mick silver]

dam . when i see stuff like this i know freedom is done and time is shorter then we all would like to think . it look like i will see all you guys an gals at the fema camps

[Mouse]

Regulation in support of the chosen monopoly - faceberg. The sheeple will be driven away from twitter back to faceberg because of such regulation. Then maybe JPM can reduce their losses a bit. Faceberg will not be subjected to such scrutiny, until twitterfuck is driven out of business, then the Executive Order 1,203,432 an Order to establish Internet Safety Standards will be unleashed.

"..in order to provide for Privacy and Safety standards, reduce national security risks, and protect consumers, and other things as may be directed by the General Administrator of the Ministry of Truth.