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Girl trolls herself to death

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pcslookout

Lifer
We all know the internet is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. People troll and are generally sexist. The UK in particular seems especially perturbed by this. So, one day 14 year old Hannah Smith goes on the anonymous chat site ask.fm and receives a a slew of negative comments. Some telling her to commit suicide. Then she goes and commits suicide later that day. And the the press is called. The father cries foul, blaming the site and its founders. He thinks they are guilty of manslaughter and they need more safety features. Ask.fm's advertisers drop out. They launch a review. Debate over cyberbulling and how it can be stopped. And the press has a field day.

But the twist is that she sent all those messages herself. Yes, 98% of those messages were sent from her ip address. Presumably as some sort of cry for either attention or help.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rolled-say-Latvian-website-chiefs-Ask-fm.html
 
A 16-year-old boy from Belgium has been identified as the troll who sent taunts to Hannah the day before she died. Mr Smith told the Daily Mail he had seen evidence the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was targeting his daughter.
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Weird. I guess darwin wins? If internet-is-serious-business drives you to suicide, I can't imagine how you cope with real life.
 
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pcslookout said:
We all know the internet is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. People troll and are generally sexist. The UK in particular seems especially perturbed by this. So, one day 14 year old Hannah Smith goes on the anonymous chat site ask.fm and receives a a slew of negative comments. Some telling her to commit suicide. Then she goes and commits suicide later that day. And the the press is called. The father cries foul, blaming the site and its founders. He thinks they are guilty of manslaughter and they need more safety features. Ask.fm's advertisers drop out. They launch a review. Debate over cyberbulling and how it can be stopped. And the press has a field day.

But the twist is that she sent all those messages herself. Yes, 98% of those messages were sent from her ip address. Presumably as some sort of cry for either attention or help.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rolled-say-Latvian-website-chiefs-Ask-fm.html
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Holy crazy story Batman 😱 I always have a hard time understanding these...if you're getting abused online, how about...just not go to that website? (assuming it was the Belgium kid and not the girl herself)

But I'm guessing there was a communication breakdown between the parent and the child if (1) he is blaming a website for the death, (2) he didn't talk to his daughter enough to know that she was suicidal, and (3) he didn't monitor his daughter's Internet activity or usage to the point where she was getting wrapped up in an online life to the point of taking her own life. Still, horrible situation all around. My condolences to the family.
 
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Same IP could also mean it was her own father! His notice was to get rid if the whiny brat and make some money suing the Web site and from a new lifetime movie deal
 
Crazy hoebag. I guess the site should now sue her father for defamation, and the crown should sue him as well for being an accessory to murder, for raising such a stupid wise and beautiful woman of a daughter.
 
crownjules said:
It's an M. Night Shamalamadingdong twist!
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http://youtu.be/kdhhQhqi_AE

Kaido said:
Holy crazy story Batman 😱 I always have a hard time understanding these...if you're getting abused online, how about...just not go to that website? (assuming it was the Belgium kid and not the girl herself)
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I've never understood this myself. Guess they need to brush up on the rules. Especially Rule 14 and Rule 20.

Rule 14: Do not argue with a troll - it means they win
Rule 20: Nothing is to be taken seriously

And of course Rule 19: the more you hate it, the stronger it gets.
 
pcslookout said:
We all know the internet is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. People troll and are generally sexist. The UK in particular seems especially perturbed by this. So, one day 14 year old Hannah Smith goes on the anonymous chat site ask.fm and receives a a slew of negative comments. Some telling her to commit suicide. Then she goes and commits suicide later that day. And the the press is called. The father cries foul, blaming the site and its founders. He thinks they are guilty of manslaughter and they need more safety features. Ask.fm's advertisers drop out. They launch a review. Debate over cyberbulling and how it can be stopped. And the press has a field day.

But the twist is that she sent all those messages herself. Yes, 98% of those messages were sent from her ip address. Presumably as some sort of cry for either attention or help.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rolled-say-Latvian-website-chiefs-Ask-fm.html
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Want to post any more made up bullshit? Almost every time I see a "furious" parent/relative crying about calling the internet police it is about some dumb ass American kid.
 
Wait a minute.

The website itself is making the claim that she was trolling herself. A very self serving claim since advertisers have pulled their ads.

Other news stories have found that even after she died the same bullies continued their posts about her. Not likely from her if she was dead.

At least one of the trolls admitted to making posts.

Why did it take so long for ask.fm to claim they were self trolls? The story they had to "investigate" the i.p.'s is ridiculous to anyone with any computer knowledge. Basically you just have to look it up.

This smells like a big lie from ask.fm
 
halik said:
Weird. I guess darwin wins? If internet-is-serious-business drives you to suicide, I can't imagine how you cope with real life.
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Evidently she did not. And the internet was just part of her exit strategy.
 
If internet trolls could cause her to off herself, she was probably in for a life of depression and shame anyway.
 
z1ggy said:
If internet trolls could cause her to off herself, she was probably in for a life of depression and shame anyway.
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Exactly. I say "WTF" in regard to these sorts of bullying claims ending in suicide.
When an adult commits suicide, no one blames others for it even though social pressures may have been involved. If you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it.
 
Assuming the story is true.. she probably wanted to kill herself anyway. She was hoping someone would find that after she died so there was a "justifiable" reason for her to kill herself. The thinking being that it would make it somewhat easier on her family than if it was completely random and they had someone/something to blame rather than just her. That's speaking from personal experience.
 
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