Rejected petition Make it illegal to post malicious and false information on social media

After receiving some threats of violence against myself after some people posted some false and Malicious rumours about me on social media I want to make ot the law to stop this from happening, this should be more than just a 'civil' case that the police can't deal with, make it law so they can.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

If a person sends threatening/abusive/offensive messages to another person via Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site, they could already be committing an offence. The most relevant offences are 'harassment' and 'malicious communications'. We're therefore not sure how you'd like the law to be changed.

You can find out more about this here:

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q770.htm

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 10 February 2017
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