SUN: MADDIE IS TARGET OF INTERNET TROLLS

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Madeleine McCann is target of trolls

By NICK FRANCIS, ANTONELLA LAZZERI and LUKE HEIGHTON
Published: Today
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CRUEL internet "trolls" are tormenting the family of missing Madeleine McCann, it has emerged.
The revelation follows the jailing of a sicko who posted videos and messages mocking dead girls.

The Sun today urges our readers to combat the menace of trolls.

Our Target A Troll campaign is being launched amid revelations that grieving families of a host of high-profile crime victims and celebrities have been plagued by weirdos making "fun" of tragedy.

Those rocked by vile web comments and videos include relatives of Madeleine McCann, Amy Winehouse, Jade Goody, Sarah Payne and murdered teenagers Sally Anne Bowman and Jimmy Mizen.

Trolls lurk on net favourites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Bebo and Formspring.

But they can be fought if they are reported to website administrators or, in extreme cases, to police. The Sun is also calling on internet service providers to hand over details of trolls to cops. The shocking list of victims came to light after Tuesday's court case in which twisted Sean Duffy, 25, was jailed for posting vile "jokes" about a string of dead girls.

Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Maddie — who vanished in 2007 a few days before her fourth birthday — have been persecuted for years.

A hoax Facebook page set up last year was called: "If 2 million people join this group I will give back Maddie McCann." A web campaign to shut it down was successful — but not before it was also trolled by a Facebook user who wrote: "Who agrees the parents did it?"

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "There is constant activity by these ghouls. They have accused Kate and Gerry of child neglect and worse, and covering up Madeleine's death.

"All the photos of Madeleine they released have been doctored in the most horrible way. One post tried to orchestrate a campaign where dog excrement was sent through their letterbox."

Mr Mitchell added: "The trouble is that it is very hard to stop these people. They hide away behind their computer screens, blogging away."

Tragic singer Amy Winehouse became a focus for trolls after her death in July.

YouTube sickos posted a video called "Bye Amy love the trolls" in which they superimposed her face on a toy troll with needles in her hair.

A viciously inaccurate message on website memebase.com read: "Amy Winehouse, sang about not going to rehab, then OD'd."

Perverted Colm Cross, 36, was given 18 weeks in jail for trolling on tribute pages for late Big Brother star Jade Goody, a cancer victim.

Cross, of Manchester, boasted of imaginary acts of necrophilia — a sexual attraction to corpses. The prosecutor at his trial said: "He found the comments amusing. He said they gave him no sexual arousal but he enjoyed the comments made in reaction." Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was murdered by sex beast Roy Whiting in 2000, has been put through untold torment.

She branded trolls "unspeakably depraved and cruel".


And her close friend Shy Keenan, who runs anti-paedophile organisation Phoenix Chief Advocates with Sara, said: "She has been subjected to the most vile abuse online.

"When she was recovering from a stroke, they were posting messages saying she should have been raped and killed like her daughter was. They also said it was Sarah's fault she was killed because she got in Whiting's van."

Ghouls have also hounded Linda Bowman, whose model daughter Sally Anne was raped and stabbed to death in 2005, just after her 18th birthday.

Linda said: "A troll pasted Sally Anne's photo on the body of a naked porn picture of a woman and posted it on tribute websites with vile messages.

"Another posted, 'She deserved to die dressed like that and I'd have given her one'." The mum, of Croydon, South London, added: "I have cried buckets over what these people have done."

The family of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen — murdered in Lee, South-East London, just after his 16th birthday in 2008 — told how a Twitter group posted "terrible things" about him.

The lad's elder brother Billy said: "The culprits definitely wanted the family to see what they were saying. They need to realise their actions are extremely hurtful."

Dad Robert Mullaney's 15-year-old son Tom hanged himself after a school argument in Birmingham last year. He told how a picture of the lad with a noose around his neck appeared online.

A caption with it read: "Hang in there Tom."

Last night Sherry Adhami, of the charity Beatbullying, called for government action to stop the trolls. She said: "It's time that preventing bullying at source is placed higher on their agenda."


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Idiots are very easy to locate
myView, By DAVE WHITELEGG, Cyber Security Expert

THESE twisted individuals are idiots — they assume they are anonymous online.

But their internet service provider can track their IP address and hand over their details to the cops.

Everyone has an IP address for their internet account which is linked to their name, address and any other details they gave to set up the account.

If the police want to track someone posting abusive messages, they simply speak to the internet service providers who have a record of everything which is written online.

There are some things you can do to limit the chances of being attacked.

Only be Facebook friends with people you know and trust. Parents can also make themselves friends with their kids, to monitor anything going on.

There are no instant answers to eradicating this kind of cyber-bullying, but if kids get educated about the internet they can avoid it much more easily.

The internet has the very best of life, but also the very worst.

Outsider's pain goes to victims
myView, By PHILLIP HODSON, Psychotherapist

THE internet is the revenge playground of the impotent — a fantasy world for deluded, anonymous vandals.

Sean Duffy's actions will have caused maximum offence and great pain. But we need to know why he did it to get through to him and people like him.

He probably felt something was missing from his life, that he was an outsider, that if he died no one would miss him.

That is why he felt hostile towards Natasha's parents. He will have looked at their pain and decided to deepen it to lessen his own.

Making people scared is also a way of having power. It is also exciting.

We've been told Duffy is autistic. Many autistic people have to be taught how other people feel.

But this is no excuse for his devastating actions.

When someone says, "This is the truth about your daughter", it is hard not to let it affect you, even if you know it is not true. For these parents, the effects are unlimited.

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WELL DONE MY SUN!!!!!!!

Very well done and I must say how timely it is considering what is going on in hater land.

Why do I get the feeling that the above article is just the appetizer?

I thought so myself, Lily. Wonder if the Hindley Fan is going to end up in the Sun?

She should be in there, Bonny. Alongside others like Bret, Laffin and a big article on Bennett and his Hounders, of course.

They will get all the attention they desire along with photos. Just think, people would be able to recognize them out and about.

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "There is constant activity by these ghouls. They have accused Kate and Gerry of child neglect and worse, and covering up Madeleine's death.

"All the photos of Madeleine they released have been doctored in the most horrible way. One post tried to orchestrate a campaign where dog excrement was sent through their letterbox."

Can anyone remember which of the haters that was? Oh, and so much for all their hot air about Clarrie not working for the McCanns any more.

He clearly is - and has made his opinion of the haters pretty clear.

We knew he was still working for them. I think it was just the haters hoping that he had left them.

I don't know which one of the saddos threatened to do that, Bonny, but it seems to ring a bell.

Can't wait to read more in depth articles about the sickos.

THE internet is the revenge playground of the impotent — a fantasy world for deluded, anonymous vandals.


Spot on; I wonder if they will be feeling quite so brave tomorrow?

bb1 wrote:
THE internet is the revenge playground of the impotent — a fantasy world for deluded, anonymous vandals.


Spot on; I wonder if they will be feeling quite so brave tomorrow?

Stand by for the typical responses, Bonny?

I do wonder how long it will take to sink in that all of this means them and that they are well, sick?

Yo, Trolls, Want Your Picture In The Sun

It looks like some of them are going to be so honored, Tony.

Oh, just think. We can check to see who looks the most like that photo we had on our old forum on what looks like a typical female hater.

The media has known for a long while, haven't they, Tony? The haters have been warned and warned, and as usual, they didn't believe it.

The press has been taking an interest in their activities all right - but not in a good way.

bb1 wrote:The media has known for a long while, haven't they, Tony? The haters have been warned and warned, and as usual, they didn't believe it.

The press has been taking an interest in their activities all right - but not in a good way.

Indeed they have Bonny

All those visitors.........

lily wrote:All those visitors.........

Yep, all those visitors

About bloody time. And let's hope that isn't the end of it.

I actually thought that they would keep quiet about this. No Chance. Silly me.

Some idiot even thinks that Proxies and Throw Away Email Addresses will protect them.
How stupid is that? Proxies and Throw Away Email Addresses are easily uncovered these days. You can even buy Software to do this yourself, so Law Enforcement won't have any problems.
But at least that proves that they don't want The Law to find out who they are. I wonder why that is?

However, The Little Aussie Angel seems to think that Australia allows this sort of thing. I wonder what Wild Life Park she is living in.

Then the Aussie Angel is in for a nasty shock, isn't she? Who knows, maybe she will get a special mention? And she will appear in one of the Murdoch papers in Australia, so her Policeman Brother can see what she has been doing online.

I am sure he will be impressed by her involvement with Brat and his FB trolls. And the post in which she uses the 'F' word to describe a missing child is bound to go down well. NOT.

And DAVE WHITELEGG cant be that much of a Cyber Security Expert (whatever that is) if he has never heard of proxy servers, throwaway accounts or, for that matter, false names and addresses.

That hater troll has clearly never heard of proxy strippers - can't hide your ip behind those.

That hater troll clearly doesn't know that UNTRACEABLE only applied to movies - go and ask all the ANONS who got the police kicking down their doors thanks to Assange and the DDOS.

Well done The Sun.

I urge everyone to tell The Sun admin , also to police, about these trolls. Arrest them all, punish them hard. Locate them through IP addresses, which can be done by police.

I sometimes wonder if these cretins lie in bed at night, worrying about the knock on the door. They jolly well should do. Moves are now afoot to identify these Trolls.

PS. I have a suspicion that ROTHLEYMASON on Sky is Laffin. His last post sounds like the PM he sent me on 3As.
Rothley Pillow is a bit too articulate to be Laffin.

Yes, I agree:

"Moves are now afoot to identify these Trolls".

Pedro Silva wrote:Well done The Sun.

I urge everyone to tell The Sun admin , also to police, about these trolls. Arrest them all, punish them hard. Locate them through IP addresses, which can be done by police.

Even I can locate them with the right software, Pedro. Someone I know does it frequently.