Social justice, Sweden's way

Our inability to teach basic values is at the heart of the storm over social media abuse - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 24, 2013: "In a recent case in Sweden, two teenage girls aged 16 and 17 set up a “slut-shaming” account on Instagram, asking people to nominate the biggest sluts in Gothenburg.
The site caused such anger that a near-riot ensued outside a school where one of the girls who set up the site was allegedly a student. The two girls were charged with aggravated defamation and found guilty. One was sentenced to juvenile detention, and the other got 45 hours’ community service. They were fined 570,000 krona (€65,500), to be divided among their 38 victims. In an interesting twist, the older girl’s mother was made responsible for half of the fine."

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