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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. Crap, we have laws like that? by Olix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Eeerk, I didn't realise we had laws like that in the UK... I need to step up my "move to sweden" plan.

  2. Bad Summary by Inverted+Intellect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bad submitter, bad!

    TFA doesn't say anything about what crime in particular he was jailed for, and his sentence may have been partly or completely due to his having 33 images of child pornography on his computer.

    TFA is also very lacking in details, and doesn't say anything about the reason for the search warrant, and the aforementioned lack of explanation for his sentence.

  3. Re:Potty mouth vs. murder by edxwelch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The guy sent an appology because he didn't want to be charged, not because he was sorry.
    Maybe if you read about the murder of this guy (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/mersey side/4730559.stm) you can imagine what the family had to go through.

  4. Re:Trolls by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The story to read is this one.

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    Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.