Australian pleads guilty to making online threats

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36573344

Australian pleads guilty to making online threats over Tinder profile

An Australian man has pleaded guilty to making sexual threats on social media, in what is seen as a landmark victory for opponents of online harassment.
Zach Alchin, 25, sent explicit comments to women on Facebook in response to a picture his friend shared of a woman's profile on the Tinder dating app.
He told the police he had been drunk and that he had been unaware what he was doing was a crime.
He will be sentenced in late July and could face up to three years in jail.
Alchin had previously pleaded not guilty but changed his plea on the first day of his trial in Sydney.

In August 2015, a friend of Alchin's - who was not charged - shared a screenshot of the profile of Olivia Melville's Tinder profile.
It included a sexually explicit lyric from singer Nicki Minaj and rapper Drake's song Only.
The post and his comment, "Stay classy, ladies", quickly spread through social media, with many leaving abusive comments about Ms Melville, 25.

When her friends defended her online, Alchin then wrote more than 50 posts, including rape threats, derogatory comments about feminists and saying that women should "never have been given rights".
He was reported by 24-year-old Paloma Brierley Newton, a friend of Ms Melville.

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[Meekychuppet]

Ludicrous.

[JimC]

It wasn't me!

[Hermit]

It wasn't me!

Of course not. The article said "An Australian man". You are a Melbournian.

[JimC]

It is true we are an elite who represent all that is best in Australia, but we are still Australians...

[pErvinalia]

Would it be a crime to tell Peter Dutton MP on twitter that one wants to kill him? Asking for a friend...

[JimC]

Would it be a crime to tell Peter Dutton MP on twitter that one wants to kill him? Asking for a friend...

Your friend would be prosecuted for making threats to kill. The feds would find your "friend", and hard-faced men would land next to his beach house in black helicopters...

[pErvinalia]

Oh ok. I'll be sure to tell my friend that..

[Hermit]

Would it be a crime to tell Peter Dutton MP on twitter that one wants to kill him? Asking for a friend...

Your friend would be prosecuted for making threats to kill. The feds would find your "friend", and hard-faced men would land next to his beach house trashy camper van at Kingscliff in black helicopters...

Get your friend to send me his camera gear before the drone drops that DSLAM on him please, rEv.

[JimC]

[pErvinalia]

No, no... He, sorry, I mean, she, lives at Tweet Herds in Wales. In the South. In the newer part of South Wales...

[JimC]