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Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-feed-the-trolls dept.

Vainglorious Coward writes "In the UK, a man has been sentenced to three years in prison for posting inflammatory messages to a website. Pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred on a site dedicated to the memory of a murdered black teenager, the 30-year old accused stated that he was not racist, and had intended to stir up an argument on the website, but did not believe in what he had written. The defending lawyer described her client as 'isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours on his computer in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad.'"

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  1. If only.... by kjart · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they'd start charging all the -1 Trolls on Slashdot. Now that would be progress.

    1. Re:If only.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      First they came for all the Anonymous Coward, nobody speaks up.
      Then they came for the trolls... No one cares.
      Then the people that don't read the RTFA... (Half of /. gone)
      Then the jokes... (???)

      When are they going to come after the dups?

      Profit!

    2. Re:If only.... by Evanisincontrol · · Score: 1, Funny
      so maybe Slashdot's moderation system isn't really all that accurate.
      Blasphemy! This guy must be a terrorist!
    3. Re:If only.... by fluffywuffy · · Score: 2, Funny

      heheh I was so tempted to mod you as troll :-P

  2. I sense a disturbance in the force by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    as if millions of GNAA trolls screamed out in horror then were thrown in prison...

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  3. hmm?? by macadamia_harold · · Score: 4, Funny

    The defending lawyer described her client as 'isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours on his computer in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad.'

    How did she know that he read slashdot?

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  4. When we broke up, my girlfriend said... by Reverend99 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... that I was not good enough for her, and very poor in bed also. She said it with all intentions of being cruel and causing me pain. I was heartbroken and devastated for weeks. Yet, she never served any jailtime for what she said. I have also had people make fun of me and call me names and insult my appearance because I'm fat and bald and short and have lots of acne. I have suffered this all my life. I've had a shattered sense of self image because of it. Yet none of them have ever been given a fine for hurting me. If everyone who ever said anything cruel to me went to jail, I'd be very lonely.

  5. Re:Crap, we have laws like that? by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really, really, strongly dislike these kinds of laws. I would never say I h__e them, of course...

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  6. Re:Trolls by Bionic_Baboon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok. Bush sucks. I say we storm the Whitehouse and hang him. See? Nothing happened I'm stil jus&^)(*&SAJDH*()& ----NO CARRIER----

  7. Die President Die by Virtex · · Score: 4, Funny
    Try makeing any untoward comments about your almighty presedent
    I hope the president dies! After he signed the order to have 100 good men and women killed by the cylons, I simply have no sympathy for him any more. President Baltar, I hope you get what's coming for you!
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  8. Re:What happened to free speech? by fatphil · · Score: 2, Funny

    "they have no First Amendment in the UK"

    Why the heck would the United Kingdom need a First Amendment of the Constitution for the United States of America?

    FatPhil

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  9. Ah, the free society by Money+for+Nothin' · · Score: 2, Funny

    That damn Dubya! Always taking away the freedoms of Americans that us Europeans enj--

    Oh, wait...

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