This is scary

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I'll just share this news story www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23…

Trash talking gamer sent to jail for talking trash.

"In February, Justin Carter, then 18, was engaged in a Facebook dispute with someone from his online gaming community. The gamer called Carter mentally disturbed on a public wall, and Carter, with withering sarcasm and a teenager's poor judgment, wrote back:

I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten

And watch the blood of the innocent rain down

And eat the beating heart of one of them.

Carter and his lawyer insist the statement was a joke - albeit one in poor taste. But it's hard to read sarcasm over the internet.

Soon a Texas law enforcement agency received an anonymous tip from Canada. Carter's home was searched and he was arrested. Now, he's been sitting in jail for almost five months, unable to pay the $500,000 (£334,470) bond required for his release."


It's scary for me because it makes me think about what I may have posted that could be taken out of context like that. A lot of art and media that I enjoy often has disturbing themes or themes of extreme violence and, for better or for worse, I would like to be free to explore those themes too. (I hope everyone here already knows that "violent media creates violent people" is a load of bull.) But if so many people could misunderstand this so much and have such an extreme reaction to it - yeah that's scary.


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girlonwantedposters's avatar
Its the internet people! These stupid people need to stop going to the "safe" and friendly sites like pintrest and and check out all the horrors that are actually on the internet!
They need to realize you can do/say/be anything on the internet and to not take it so seriously. 
I had an incident recently on facebook. I called out my family for being sticks in the mud and they exiled me to my grandmas. It wasnt even that bad! I was blunt and didnt curse or anything. 

I swear the internet is not as safe and fluffy as these people think and they need to realize this and step back.