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UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets'

Posted by timothy on from the hate-speech-join-the-crowd dept.

Motor writes "A UK judge has jailed a man for 56 days after he posted offensive comments on twitter about a footballer who had a heart attack during a game. He's also been thrown out of his university degree course weeks from graduating. His comments may have been offensive... but do they really justify a prison sentence and ruining his life?"

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  1. So what did he post? by Korin43 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh.. so is anyone else bothered by the fact that the summary and TFA both don't say what he actually said? "Racist tweets" is a bit vague.

  2. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We are a democracy in the UK. If the people don't like the law banning "incitement to racial hatred", we get rid of it.

    Yet you keep electing people that puts black boxes in your car to determine if you speed or run a stop sign, where you are every second while driving etc etc, and what was the number of times the average uk citizen is 'caught on camera'? Isn't it over 3000+ each day?

    This Orwellian stuff has been expanding for -years- in the UK and there's no end in sight. So your 'if we don't like it, we get rid of it' statement is preposterous.

  3. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your democracy clearly didn't have a problem with slavery either a couple centuries ago. You were wrong then too.