Saturday, November 10, 2012

That freedom of speech thing? Doesn’t count in Britain

“One man angry about the war in Afghanistan was ordered to perform 240 hours of community service for declaring on Facebook that ‘all soldiers should die and go to hell.’ Police also went knocking on the door of a 17-year-old boy who tweeted an insulting message to Olympic diver Tom Daley, saying that he had let down his dead father by failing to win a gold medal. He was arrested, but released and given a warning.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-free-speech-20121109,0,7465396,full.story

(Stupid remarks? Sure. But if judges begin deciding stupid is illegal … Let the one who never did a stupid thing cast the first stone. Or something like that.)

“The source of the controversy is a 2003 communications law that, among other things, makes it a crime to send messages deemed ‘grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’ through a public electronic network.”

(Oh, it is a law. Well, then, that’s different.)

Found at www.fark.com

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