An Australian has pleaded guilty to making sexual threats on social media, in what is being seen as a cyber-bullying test case, ABC Net News reports.
Zane Alchin, 25, was charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass and cause offence. In August last year, he wrote abusive and threatening comments on a Facebook post about 25-year-old Olivia Melville from Sydney's south.
A friend of Alchin's had taken a screenshot of Melville's Tinder profile and posted it on Facebook, where it was shared thousands of times.
After that, Melville received many abusive online messages from strangers.
Paloma Brierly Newton came to Ms Melville's defence on the Facebook thread and herself became the target of sexually violent comments from Alchin.