Shane Sonderman gets 5 years for SWATting Death

Courtesy of The Register a quasi-satiric tech newspaper.

Quote:

A teenager in the US has been jailed for five years for his role in the harassment and swatting of the owner of a desirable Twitter handle – a swoop that led to the netizen's death. Shane Sonderman, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee, wanted the username @Tennessee that had been registered on Twitter years prior by Mark "Sparky" Herring, 60, of Bethpage, Tennessee. Herring is known to bulletin-board users as the inventor of the widely used offline mail reader format QWK.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/...watting_death/


While I'm glad to see someone got jail time for this, how did society get to the point that somones online 'nym' was worth driving someone to their death over?

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