{"id":536,"date":"2012-09-14T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2012-09-14T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:59:25","slug":"when-a-tweet-becomes-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Robbie Farrah is the latest celebrity to receive a tweet from a follower that has been widely labeled as abusive.  The attack on the Australian sports figure has sparked a call for a review of current social media laws.  Britain has already prosecuted a number of social media cases in which abuse has been directed at an individual through social media.  Here are two articles from AAP on the Farrah incident:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/barry-ofarrell-calls-for-review-on-social-media-laws-after-troll-attack-on-robbie-farah\/story-fn59niix-1226471162842\">&#8220;Barry O&#8217;Farrell Calls for Review of Social Media Laws&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/1691109\/OFarrell-seeks-tougher-social-media-law\">&#8220;Twitter &#8216;Trolls&#8217; Should Be Punished&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\">Average Rating: <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">4.4<\/span> out of <span itemprop=\"bestRating\">5<\/span> based on <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">238<\/span> user reviews.<\/span><\/div><\/p><p>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\/\",\n  \"@type\": \"Review\",\n\"datePublished\":\"May 2, 2026\",\n  \"itemReviewed\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Product\",\n    \"name\": \"Male Enhancement Pills\"\n  },\n  \"reviewRating\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Rating\",\n    \"ratingValue\": \"4.4\"\n  },\n\n  \"author\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"LegitScript\"\n  },\n  \"reviewBody\": \"Excellent quality at low price. Very good customer service.\",\n  \"publisher\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"LegitScript\"\n  }\n}\n<\/script><div id=\"mlnks\" class=\"entry-meta\"><p>[ <a href=\"\/\" title=\"\"><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/\" title=\"\"><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/\" title=\"\"><\/a> | <a href=\"\/-\" title=\" \"> <\/a> | <a href=\"\/\" title=\"\"><\/a> ]<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Farrah is the latest celebrity to receive a tweet from a follower that has been widely labeled as abusive. The attack on the Australian sports figure has sparked a call for a review of current social media laws. Britain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/?p=536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,230,250,247,17,11,35,38,67,43,44,249,28],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse","tag-australia","tag-britain","tag-celebrity","tag-digital-age","tag-facebook","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-international","tag-internet","tag-social-media-law","tag-trolls","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialmedialaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}