Court orders Twitter to unmask Dark Knight copycat killer wannabe Twitter has given cops details of a tweeter who threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a performance of ex-boxer Mike Tyson's one-man show. A US court compelled the social network to hand over records it holds on the user a full three days after an initial request from New York police was ignored by the website's team. The …
Not the whole killing thing, but the fact that a guy saying he's going to kill people, and he isn't joking, doesn't trigger twitters strict protocol. But they can give the location of somebody saying he's glad an olympiads dad is dead.
Way to go twotter. I'm sure all of your twats are proud of the service.
And a threat to physically drown an Olympic class swimmer approaching the peak of his physical fitness should be taken more seriously that somebody threatening to enter a public place with a gun and kill random people.
I mean, people never take guns into public places and randomly kill people do they? And the police never find a blog entry or a facebook post or a web page after its happened detailing what they were going to do.
in this country it is a criminal offence to threaten to kill, drown or generally harass someone. The top 3 that you can be prosecuted under are -
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994
Malicious Communications Act 199
but can also include
Public Order Act 1986
Just by calling you an asshat I could in theory be prosecuted, however the CPS would probably not bother as you had obscured your identity . As you have anonymity I can therefore call you wand threaten you in any way I like as for all I know you could just be an advanced lump of over ripe cheese.
Its likely he had location on his twitter/facebook and was already well known to the local plod, I doubt they even asked Twitter for his IP address.
In fact I seem to recall that once Daley set his twatter followers on the Riley character they outed his details along with mutlple threats etc etc
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