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.'"

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Re:Crap, we have laws like that?

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Nonsense; the evil actions of a leader doesn't blind everyone under their rule to morality. Many of us are outraged at what is happening at those places as are we with the apparent lack of freedom of expression in the UK being shown right now.

The post I was replying to was criticizing the UK by comparison with the US in its respect for civil liberties. That's what made me choke on my pretzel. As for "evil actions of a leader...". You (presuming you're American) voted him in and re-elected him. Even if you didn't vote Republican, your representatives confirmed his actions.

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