Submitted on Friday 10th February 2017
Rejected on Thursday 2nd March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make it illegal to post malicious and false information on social media
After receiving some threats of violence against myself after some people posted some false and Malicious rumours about me on social media I want to make ot the law to stop this from happening, this should be more than just a 'civil' case that the police can't deal with, make it law so they can.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
If a person sends threatening/abusive/offensive messages to another person via Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site, they could already be committing an offence. The most relevant offences are 'harassment' and 'malicious communications'. We're therefore not sure how you'd like the law to be changed.
You can find out more about this here:
www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q770.htm
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