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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. Not strictly accurate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    He got 6 months of his sentence for child pornography charges.

  2. Re:Bad Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read TFA:
    He was sentenced at Liverpool crown court to two years and eight months' in jail for the race hate crime and six months consecutively for the child pornography offences.

  3. Re:Crap, we have laws like that? by mikael_j · · Score: 5, Informative
    We have a law like that in Sweden as well, the basic idea of the law could be described as "You can say you hate jews and wish they all died but you can't say 'kill all jews'", its also about context, if you, a six-foot-seven skinhead run up to a short skinny black girl and start ranting about black people then your physical appearance and how threatening the situation could be considered to be should be factored in. Of course, like all laws this law gets misinterpreted by both sides...

    /Mikael

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