[danielf]

Originally Posted by Damien

It won't stop as many of the determined trolls. The ones who know what they are doing and plan it, obsess over it. It will stop the teenagers using Twitter to abuse and bully people IMO.

This. The large majority of people aren't determined trolls who go out of their way to make sure they aren't traceable. This move should reduce the number of people who post abusive stuff at a whim. I think that's a good thing, though I do wonder how abusive/defamatory will be defined. I would hope that it'll be a bit firmer than a public order offence where one complaint is sufficient for an offence to have been committed. Then again, are web masters expected to be the judge of what is defamatory, or will there be a separate body that scours forums on users' request? Too many questions at this point.