The real victims of Twitter abuse and bullying

If the police were involved in 14000 investigations of Facebook content last year, then the public are the real victims because the police were not able to concentrate on more serious crime.
Of course everybody was horrified at the remarks made to Tom Daley on the now closed Twitter account Rileyy_69. But it really just amounted to one person being unnecessarily horrible to another.
The perpetrator has been arrested and charged under the Malicious Communications Act 1988 which deals with the sending of messages which are indecent, grossly offensive, false or conveying a threat. And for the life of me I cannot see which part of that applies in this case. Okay it was offensive, but certainly not grossly so. And I don't think that it would be practical to try to define in legal terms the level of the offense caused. It was rather childishly rude in fact, the kind of thing that might be said in a school playground. You cannot and should not ask the police to intervene just because your feelings get hurt.
Besides I firmly believe that if someone puts himself in the public arena in whatever field of endeavour and expects the benefits of public appreciation then he must also be prepared to accept the opposite however hurtful.
Admittedly Tom Daley did not complain to the police himself so my remarks are directed towards the nannies and professional complainers who took it upon themselves to involve the heavy handed minions of the law.
Personally I am not prepared to desist from using my Twitter account to criticise the antics and appearance of ungainly Strictly Come Dancing contestants or from saying that Red Bull have been cheating in Formula One. So I shall be expecting a knock on my door at stupid o' clock the next morning.