The guy that wrote that is a class1 a hole
The guy being in jail for a racist comment seems fair to me. If in real life u can go to jail for that, online - where your voice can be heardby way more people, which his tweet was - should suffer the consequences imho.
What I foresee happening is someone having a real bad experience somewhere, saying that the "food was shit" and boom, jail...
Or someone posting a funny trolling comment and going to jail, that would be fucked up
That's interesting and I didn't know that. I've always thought that people who live in EU countries are a little more tolerant to this kind of stuff. There's what, like 500,000 cameras in the UK?
I didn't realize that saying racist things offline could get a person put in jail over there (until seeing that). From when I looked it up it seemed that it was only illegal on the TV (due to BBC being funded the way it is) or if it was used to incite violence or if it had to do with employment. In the US it isn't illegal to say racist things anyway (yet). Not that legality makes anything right. In my opinion though, people should not have to fear jail time for saying anything. An ass kicking perhaps, but not legal crackdown.
The guy being in jail for a racist comment seems fair to me. If in real life u can go to jail for that, online - where your voice can be heardby way more people, which his tweet was - should suffer the consequences imho.
What I foresee happening is someone having a real bad experience somewhere, saying that the "food was shit" and boom, jail...
Or someone posting a funny trolling comment and going to jail, that would be fucked up
it is just the next step in what is going on the last few months/years. hitler was dumb - he pushed it too hard. those others learnt from it. they drip-feed it to us.
This is the law in a bunch of EU countries - especially the UK.
House Bill 2549 is currently sitting on Governor Jan Brewer?s desk, awaiting approval.Well, since I live in Arizona looks like my days of trolling the Internet are over
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidth...zona-law-could-punish-trolling-with-25-years/
What do you guys think?
And so it continues..
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...acist-Twitter-abuse-aimed-at-James-Perch.html
The flood gates have been opened for everyone to start reporting each other over any offensive comment at all in an attempt to get each other jailed.
Well done, Judge. Well done. *clap*