Chrissy Teigen Just Discovered Zane Alchin, Has Zero Time For That Shit

Yesterday, it was reported that Zane Alchin, the 25-year-old Sydney man who made sexually explicit and threatening comments to a woman on Facebook, was sentenced to a 12-month good behaviour bond in a short hearing at Newtown Local Court.

Alchin, who pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to menace, threaten or offend, directed numerous threats at 25-year-old Olivia Melville, a screenshot of whose Tinder profile had been posted to Facebook. 

In his defence, Alchin’s solicitor Sophie Walsh said that he had consumed a large amount of alcohol at the time most of his comments were made (11.30am), and spoke about the effect of the high-profile case on his life, saying:

After reading up on the case, Tiegen proposed setting up a troll farm to deal with the worst of the internet, which … sounds pretty draconian and may break a few conventions of international law, but we’ll hear her out.  

Interesting case out of Australia. Our jails are full enough here but perhaps we can create a troll farm. https://t.co/xpgH0yUtda

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2016

Had never heard of Zane Alchin before but reading his defense of “I’m being threatened now!” — ?? https://t.co/HHhr6UCFcV

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2016

In case you forgot how f’kn grim Alchin’s comments were, she shared screengrabs of a few of them:

#zanealchin #whatagem pic.twitter.com/QqTB8BqGjd

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2016

She then had a few thoughts on how a troll farm might actually work in practice:

I would like to start the first troll farm. It isn’t a prison, merely a place where they cannot have access to actual happy people.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2016

Ideally they cancel each other out and explode I dunno I’m still figuring out the farm business https://t.co/99VIasRDQ4

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2016

We sell carrot peels and meat scraps at the door to both feed the trolls and support the upkeep of troll farm https://t.co/nNMUz4O3yf

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2016