trollosphere

That Duffy suffers from Asperger's, according to his defence lawyers, was not allowed to mitigate his serial targeting of bereaved families, a hobby which seems to have emerged in the trollosphere in response to MySpace and Facebook tribute pages to dead teenagers, producing not only deliberately offensive satire of the often banal contributions on such pages, but episodes of actual harassment.

Cyber bullies are vile, but should we be locking them up? | Catherine Bennett 2011