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OCR: Internet torture tale sends student to jail Technology: A judge re jects free-speech argument and says the man is a `ticking bomb ready to go off.' -Brian S. Akre The Associated Press Detroit- A college student who wrote on the Internet about toturing, raping and murdering a classmate is "a ticking bomb ready to go off" and will be jailed until trial, a federal magistrate said Friday." University of Michigan student Jake A. Baker's free-speech rights are not an issue, said Magistrate Thomas A. Carlson, noting that Baker made specific threats against a specific woman and discussed the logistics of crime . "Just thinking about it anymore doesn't do the trick. I need to do it," Baker messaged a man with whom he'd been discussing rape, torture or murder, Carlson said. Baker, 20, of Boardman, O ...