To feel sorry for this woman?

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781377/BREAKING-NEWS-Internet-troll-targeted-McCanns-dead-hotel-room-days-fleeing-home.html

OK so her hobby of internet trolling (and her subjects!!) was a bit dodgy BUT I cannot help to feel quite sorry for how she was treated??

AIBU

Eh? I thought trolling was upsetting people via the internet by posting inflammatory or bullying remarks.

I feel extremely sorry for this woman. People post all sorts of crap online and say things they wouldn't dream in 'real life'. They don't deserve to die.

getting bogged down in the terminology is missing the point a bit isn't it?

Troll, bully, abuser, harasser...whatever. is one better than the other?

No I don't feel sorry for her. She chose to write all those nasty and spiteful things about the McCann's nobody forced her.

Internet trolls cause damage. They hurt and upset people. They get a kick out of it would seem.

If she hadn't trilled in the first place she wouldn't have been outed by Sky.

It matters because she has been incorrectly branded a troll by the media! Her views, however, unsavory, didn't break any laws - the police took no action.

trolled not bloody trilled

they may well have taken action. it was early days.

Nancy66 But you don't KNOW that do you? What we do know is that the police did not take any action and had not taken action at the time Sky News approached her.

No, I don't know that just as you don't know that they would not have taken action or that she didn't break any laws.

That is dangerous pinky, it was found tgat she dud not target the McCannes directly. If she had gone through the justice process and found her guilty in a court of law then yes this reaction would be justified.

I think writing that you wish someone was dead and that they would burn in hell is a little more than 'having an opinion'. Here. There are trolls in this sorry article who threaten violence to not only the parents but the twins. Absolutely despicable behaviour.

So nasty, I just don't understand how people get their kicks from it.

No not glad that she committed suicide of course nit, but the contempt towards her actions.

If course I woukd nit be pleased that she killed herself, no it's sad she did that and she leaves a young son, only 20. But her actions were disputable and do her no favours

Discpicable

But that website you linked to Rousette, it has printed pictures of these so-called 'trolls'- people who have not been found guilty of , or been charged with any crime! Is that not just as bad- they could be completely innocent, and now their pictures are all over the world wide web!!! That is despicable too! It also says that people will be getting the police knocking at their doors over the next few weeks- how do they know this? Are the police allowed to give information like that out to be divulged on a website? And what if the police question someone and then no charges are forthcoming? Again, pictures & names would have been posted all over the internet for nothing! That website should be pulled up for trolling itself! All as bad as eachother!

I'm sorry to hear of anyone committing suicide. But I'm also terribly sorry for the McCanns who have not only lost their daughter, but have to put up with vile, vicious, hate filled vitriol on line from people who are either too stupid to understand the consequences of what they're doing, or too nasty to care.

What a lot of so-called trolls seem to be is 'obsessives'. And what many of them seem to want is to demonise and 'other' someone so that they can then revel in all kinds of abuse and vitriol against that other with a clear conscience.

I've seen some of Brenda L's tweets, and I looked at the website that Rousette linked to. It doesn't really matter what 'side' of the McCann story people say they are on, these people all want to tear into someone on the internet, and do it again and again. They all show a contempt for their targets and a sense of moral superiority over them.

This is a much wider phenomenon than the McCann case. The Meredith Kirchner murder case drew similar responses. There are and will be others. With heavy irony, Brenda Leyland herself became the latest person about whom it was permissible to say anything.

It is a frightening tendency.