Possible Prison Sentence For Shitposting

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California Man Indicted for Making Threats Against Blizzard
RON WHITAKER | 22 JULY 2016 7:20 AM

After making threats to injure Blizzard employees, a California man was arrested and indicted.

No matter how upset you are over a game or how it's being run, making threats to the developer of said game is not a good idea, as one California man learned this month. According to a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California, 28-year-old Stephen Cebula of Sacramento, CA was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for making threats against Blizzard employees.

The press release states that,

"According to court documents, between July 2, 2016, and July 3, 2016, Cebula transmitted messages over the internet to Blizzard Entertainment, in which he stated that he 'may or may not pay [Blizzard] a visit with an AK47 amongst some other 'fun' tools,' and 'might be inclined to 'cause a disturbance' at [Blizzard's] headquarters in California with an AK47 and a few other 'opportunistic tools.'"

Celbula remains in custody after being arrested on July 12, and will be arraigned July 26. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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Comments

>making threats to injure Blizzard employees
>shitposting
get out of your mom's basement

>rogue players

>California Man

every

fucking

time

>actually getting scared about something written on the internet

get medication for your mental problems faget

Are Califags worse than Ausies at shitposting?

>I only threatened to kill him I dindu nuthn!
edgelord

Good.

If only same thing would apply to fighting game threads.

> he stated that he 'may or may not pay [Blizzard] a visit with an AK47 amongst some other 'fun' tools,' and 'might be inclined to 'cause a disturbance' at [Blizzard's] headquarters in California

Can't chalk that up to shitposting. Threats like these have to be taken seriously.

I think aussie is worse ? Dunno man. No one likes them.

You must be the basement dweller if you think death threats are socially acceptable in this country.

I will fucking castrate you and make you choke to death on your own dick!
Then I will rape your fucking corpse in front of your family!
Are you scared of my "threats" yet? No?
How about now?

After losing Gladiator, I wouldn't do all that, but I wouldn't mind smacking whoever signed off on that decision.

Seriously did he think everyone would laugh off threatening to shoot up an office with an AK after all that's been going on? The guy is a moron and he should be removed from the gene pool

No matter how retarded you are, death threat and fake shooting spree menace are illegal. Also, believe or not, Judge are not retarded and can analyse context. Nobody is scared, but that Californian dude is still retarded and couldn't possibly think it would be ok to do that.

Play stupid game, win stupid prize.

There's a big difference between threatening a random user on Sup Forums and tweeting death threats to someone's personal account

No, there really isn't. They are both equally vapid and meaningless.

On an anonymous anime board? Sure.

One's sent to someone's personal Twitter account in a country where people can buy guys in the same plaza they buy their groceries? Now we have a problem. Its better to just arrest the cretin for being a faggot and running his mouth than to see him carry out a threat he made.

*where people can buy guns

Fuck lol

>almost 5 fucking years

RIP, this guy is toast

No. Precedent alone is enough to say with certainty that generic "threats" made online mean nothing.

>haha its just the internet bro chillax :)
Youre a fucking idiot dude, you really, really are.

He did it in America. This is a country where people get murdered in malls, movie theaters, kindergarten classrooms and college campuses because some triggerhappy autist bought a gun. And it happens fucking constantly. Do you know the kind of backlash the police department would get from the families of the victims if this faggot carried out his threat?

>250 000$

USA is cucked

Are you mentally ill? Can you not see the difference in threats between anonymous persons who has no information against each other and those against a specific person which you know where they work and live? His threats were specific related to visit the headquarters where he works with an AK47. There's no controversy here you autismo.

This is what lawyers are for
Watch thiese 5 years become community service and a fine.

>mass murders happen all the time in america meme

Nigger, finland and france have a higher mass murder rate than the US per capita. The reason they have so many is because they're fucking huge. Hell china probably has more but there's no way anyone outside of china's government would ever know for sure.

Im gonna need a source for these bold statements

Dude thanks for those amazing statistics, how much do I owe you

Retarded Valvedrones are this upset

>>mass murders happen all the time in america meme
How the fuck is this a meme?

There's a difference between shitposting on Sup Forums, and being a little TOO specific with your intent towards actual employees of a company

There is no difference, you fucking morons.
Thousands of these "threats" are made every fucking day because people online say stupid shit constantly and nothing ever happens.
Why? Because it is just that: stupid shit said online.
The police knows this and so they don't waste time on it and the only reason this is different is because Blizzard complained via their army of lawyers.

He's one of those edgelords who spent his adolescence on Sup Forums and can't discern between real life behavior and internet behavior, don't bother.

>nu-jew-blizzard

>5 years and 250k fine

kek, this is only for show
He will probably manage to get community service for a year and a restraint order

>nothing ever happens.
Dylan and Eric, Elliot Rodger, and Omar Mateen would like to speak with you

>there's no difference
Then please do it with an account with your real information against someone else real account. Don't forget to give specific details about how the whole attack gonna play out. We all would be thankfull for authorities to keep you away from society.

Making threats was always illegal.

You can panic when people in the U.S. get arrested just for having opinions, like they do in the UK.

New flash, retard: making specific threats to specific people will get you in trouble. Get off of Sup Forums and leave your fucking house.

How would you like it if someone did it to you? Or left a note on the front door of your house?

>Chill out mom its just a piece of paper hehehe it cant hurt you :)

>Dylan and Eric
Not even social media
>Elliot Rodger
Did not upload shit before going out to shoot people
>Omar Mateen
A single exception that proves the rule.

>false equivalence
Very convincing.

So how about you record yourself making a bomb thread to your local movie theater and see how that works?

>Hehehe chill out officer it was just a prank call :)

>thinking that making threats in the decade of mass shootings and "terrorism" is a good idea, even if it's a joke

Something something natural selection.

Ever since last year people have become even more extreme and unstable, it's very plausible that some video game autist would lose their shit over something that happened on a video game and shoot up the development studio. Every one should know that, assuming that everyone here isn't a normal fag and has had enough interactions with people over the internet and understands how crazy people on the internet can be and how they overreact and bitch out over the smallest thing.

Another false equivalence.

Why is Mike Morhaime so moe?

never change nostalgia fags

This logic is so quintessentially American.
>some insane idiots shot some people
>OH MY GOD WHAT DO WE DO WHAT THE FUCK HOLY SHIT PLEASE GUBMINT DO SOMETHING TO PROP UP MY ILLUSION OF SAFETY! I WILL SACRIFICE ANY AND ALL OF MY FREEDOMS JUST FOR THAT!

The difference is that, this threat is unrealistic.
The one against blizzard was way more specific and realistic.
Method and location was involved in the threat.
Look at it from Blizzards perspective. If even 1 single employee felt unsafe i would also sue THE FUCK out of anyone who would make my employees feel unsafe.
I would be so fucking mad if even a single one of my employees felt unsafe coming to work.

I'm not American and neither do I live in the US, nor do I live any country that had amass shooting happene in the last 15 years.

I'm not saying that I believe every threat that I hear, I'm saying that other people do, that the mob does, the mob is stupid and gullible, and if you're too dumb to understand that and still think that making a threat about going into a building with an AK47 and killing everyone inside is a good idea, you deserve to get scared shitless by having SWAT bust down your door and arrest you.

>Buying guns in California
Even neutered semi auto rifles are illegal to buy now

Go on Twitter and make a threat then. Screencap.

>the mob is stupid and gullible, and if you're too dumb to understand that
I am fully aware of that but that doesn't mean I will ever condone it.

Part of becoming an adult is realizing that there are things out of your control, and they will continue to happen, even if you don't condone it, and that if you are not careful, you'll get your shit fucked up, like what happened to the guy that got arrested for threatening to make a mass shooting at Blizzard.

>getting jailed and fined for saying stupid things

wut? I thought America was a civilized country, not fucking saudi-arabia

No, that's how you become a sheep.

>giving legit threat during these times when everyone is going on a murder spree

The boy sure is dumb.

JUSTICE.
>28 years old
>being mentally retarded

Good. Hopefully that means an end to uncreative "kys" replies.

Yeah, I'm sure that's what Mr. Cebula is thinking right now, something among the lines of "UH, YEAH, I SURE DID SHOW THOSE SHEEP AT BLIZZARD, YEAH, HAHA, I MADE THEM ARREST ME HAHA."

I bet you can't even understand the difference between something that affects you and something that does not.

I don't need to threaten to make mass shootings to get my kicks in life, It maybe it would be funny, but realize why shouldn't do it, especially in 2016, because I'm a person that is in touch with the current situation of the world and the people in it. Understanding that I can't change people's mind, and understanding that there are indeed crazy people out there who can go around shooting / stabbing / bombing people over small shit, I choose not to make stupid threats online.

Credible death threats have never been covered under freedom of speech you autist. He wrote an address and specified details, that's a threat and he deserves to get punished. Maybe a fine would be more appropriate but jail isn't unreasonable. Threatening a mass shooting in a company's office is not acceptable behavior, I don't understand how Sup Forums has trouble understanding this.

Most people here really don't think.

>Maybe a fine would be more appropriate but jail isn't unreasonable.

The problem is that you can't tell if a threat like that is a joke or not, you can make a law that makes it so people who threaten to do such a thing can get off with a fine and 30 days in jail or whatever, but then any actual mass shooters who make a threat like that and end up getting arrested before they do the shooting could use that to avoid life in jail.

you're literally tumblr incarnate

So was this because of the McCree buffs?

Seriously have you faced a good McCree/Zenyatta combo now? Anyone just gets destroyed in 2 shots.

>russian 2ch
>~2014
>some guy asking for help in Sup Forums how to avoide prison
>he call to "other company" and said that he will set the bomb and blow all of them
>there is no way for him to win case because of terrorism
>he was 23 years old
New generation is really retarded

Some of you are alright.
Don't go outside tomorrow.

>not going to Arizona to buy a gun

Literally the easiest place in the world to get a gun.

THAT'S IT

IF I SEE YOU IN PUBLIC

ANY OF YOU

AND YOU'RE BLACK

YOU ARE GOING TO FUCKING GET BLOWN THE FUCK

OUT

I AM GOING TO ATTACK THE FIRST FUCKING NIGGER THAT I SEE WITH A BASEBALL BAT

AND THERE WILL

BE

BLOOD

BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDD

GOD YES THE BLOOD OF A FUCKING DARKIE SPILLED ON THE STREETS

DUMB STINKY NIGGER

BLOOD

YES

GOD YES

KILL

ALL

NIGGERS
I
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S

THIS IS FINALLY IT

THIS IS REALLY IT

THIS IS YOUR RECKONING YOU SUBHUMAN NIGGERS

AND IT WILL BE BROUGHT ON BY ME AND ME ALONE

>t. Jamal

>guy turns into le logical fallacies master

kids are faggots these days

People just need to adapt to the way the crowd thinks in the 2010's, sure the whole situation might have been carefully orchestrated by the CIA / NWO / Jews / SS / KGB / Reptilians / Liberals / Conservatives but you still need to know that not following these new unwritten rules about threatening to do acts of terrorism can lead you to have your shit fucked up.

Godspeed.

>saying it anonymously
Pussy.

>not wanting to be the sheep

You can't send threats about bombs even in 90th. If they find you, you will be fucked. It's realy natural selection