|
Korean Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!"
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
|
 Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject: Man jailed for Britain's first "web-rage" attack |
 |
|
I was going to put this in the off-topic, but I think it relates more down here. Many of you guys aren't right in the head, so everyone (including those not quite sane people), be careful.
| Quote: |
Man jailed for Britain's first "web-rage" attack
After months of online invective, London man attacked rival with pickaxe and machete
Nov. 17, 2006. 11:58 AM
REUTERS
LONDON � A British man said to have carried out the country's first "web-rage" attack was jailed for 2-1/2 years today for assaulting a man with whom he had exchanged insults over the Internet.
Paul Gibbons, 47, from south London, admitted he had attacked John Jones in December 2005 after months of exchanging abuse with him via an Internet chat room dedicated to discussing Islam.
London's central criminal court heard that Gibbons had "taken exception" to Jones, 43, after Jones alleged that Gibbons had been "interfering with children".
After several more verbal and written exchanges, during which Jones threatened to track down Gibbons and give him a severe beating, Gibbons and a friend went to his victim's house in Essex, east of London, armed with a pickaxe and a machete.
Jones himself was armed with a knife but Gibbons seized it from him, held it to his throat and "scratched" him across the neck, the court was told.
Gibbons, who the court heard had previous convictions for "violent offences", pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding on the first day of his trial last month.
Other charges of attempted murder and issuing online threats to kill four other chatroom users were not pursued but could be reactivated in future if he reoffends.
Media reports said it was Britain's first "web-rage" attack and Judge Richard Hawkins said the circumstances were "unusual".
"This case highlights the dangers of Internet chat rooms, particularly with regard to giving personal details that will allow other users to discover home addresses," said Detective Sergeant Jean-Marc Bazzoni of Essex Police. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
corroonb
Joined: 04 Aug 2006
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Highly relevant for this board which at times gets very heated. Nice post.
Be afraid, be very afraid. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| corroonb wrote: |
Highly relevant for this board which at times gets very heated. Nice post.
Be afraid, be very afraid. |
Relevant to this board, yes, but even more relevant to the other Korean expat boards. I'd be surprised if there has not been at least a couple of message board-related assaults to date - there's certainly been enough talk.
Oh, internet! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Whither, Internet?
Y'all know that the Internet is often being used by Muslims now to spread personal information of infidels. The purpose, of course, is to track them down and kill them.
Newsweek ran an article about it.
| Death Squads Online wrote: |
Not long ago, Mohammed Kika found out that his name had appeared on a London-based Web site run by Sunni exiles from Iraq. The Baghdad man was accused of betraying other Sunnis to a Shiite militia in the mixed neighborhood of Mansour, receiving a $200 bounty for each one he identified. The posting even disclosed the name of the barbershop where Kika could be found. He ran for his life, friends and family told NEWSWEEK. At first he hid out in the Shiite neighborhood of Karrada, and then he fled the country.
Iraq's sectarian war is spreading onto the Web. Some Iraqis, like Kika, have been forced into hiding or exile after being targeted on the Internet. Others may have run too slowly. Sunni and Shiite Web sites offer warnings to Iraqis about neighborhoods and ministries that may have been infiltrated by militias, but the sites are also increasingly used as tools by those seeking names, addresses and occupations of citizens to kill. (NEWSWEEK has found at least eight of these sites, but we have decided not to publish their Web addresses.) The outings are openly endorsed by some Iraqi leaders. Jalal al-Din Saghir, an influential Shiite cleric and parliamentary deputy, sponsors several sites. "Some of the Web sites can be used to catch spies by tracking their movements," he told NEWSWEEK.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15176583/site/newsweek/ |
Oh, Muslims. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
