I've seen this multiple times in the past few months, and this time, it involves 20-year-old Caleb Clemmons, a former Georgia Southern student.
He's been in jail for 6 months now, because of something he posted on Tumblr. The thing he posted on Tumblr was:
And, after just a few rounds, the psychology major was tracked down, and arrested. Police found no plans to actually attack the school, they found no weapons. Clemmons telling authorities that the Tumblr post was (quote):
But, he's still being charged with making terrorist threats on a computer, and could face up to 5 years in prison.
The county set Clemmons's bond at twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), which is too much for his family to afford. Caleb's family reported that while he has been in jail, he has been physically assaulted.
And, really, these cases are so "new", you don't know what's going to happen. Will the judge try and make an example of these people posting these things? Will the judge have a personal realization that he thinks there's a difference between a joke (on the internet), and a threat? Who knows. Honestly, we live in a very, very weird time where we think of the internet as this playground, or a place where we can just say stuff, and nothing actually happens. I mean, if you put a microphone in the offices (at my place of work), the jokes that are said there, all of us would probably go to jail.
But, at the same time, if things like this are said, and law enforcement doesn't get involved, and then something actually happens, we're all going to be like, down in the mouth.
He's been in jail for 6 months now, because of something he posted on Tumblr. The thing he posted on Tumblr was:
And, after just a few rounds, the psychology major was tracked down, and arrested. Police found no plans to actually attack the school, they found no weapons. Clemmons telling authorities that the Tumblr post was (quote):
But, he's still being charged with making terrorist threats on a computer, and could face up to 5 years in prison.
The county set Clemmons's bond at twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), which is too much for his family to afford. Caleb's family reported that while he has been in jail, he has been physically assaulted.
And, really, these cases are so "new", you don't know what's going to happen. Will the judge try and make an example of these people posting these things? Will the judge have a personal realization that he thinks there's a difference between a joke (on the internet), and a threat? Who knows. Honestly, we live in a very, very weird time where we think of the internet as this playground, or a place where we can just say stuff, and nothing actually happens. I mean, if you put a microphone in the offices (at my place of work), the jokes that are said there, all of us would probably go to jail.
But, at the same time, if things like this are said, and law enforcement doesn't get involved, and then something actually happens, we're all going to be like, down in the mouth.
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