Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak

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.'"

Comments

If only....

[kjart]

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

I sense a disturbance in the force

[antifoidulus]

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

hmm??

[macadamia_harold]

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?

Re:Trolls

[Bionic_Baboon]

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

Die President Die

[Virtex]

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!