webfact Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Student sentenced for racial abuse on Twitter Joshua Cryer, 21, a law student of Jesmond, Newcastle, has been given a two-year community order by the court in Newcastle, England. Joshua is sentenced for sending a series of racial abusive tweets to former footballer Stan Collymore. Cryer admitted to the court that he had sent racist messages to the former Liverpool, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest star striker. He had previously denied sending messages [more...] Full story: http://www.nettechbl...use-on-twitter/ -- nettechblog.com 2012-03-22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparebox2 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Lucky him. In Thailand, an old man have to go 15 years jail for sending 3 offensive SMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaikahuna Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 So much for freedom of speech....whether you like or agree with it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seismic Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 So much for freedom of speech....whether you like or agree with it or not. Racially abusive messages are considered criminal offences now in the UK. You cannot say they should be allowed under freedom of speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23962323 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The Special Relationship....UK and USA. To celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee..The USA will be printing a limited edition $100 Bill with our Queens head on it. He Majesty has reciprocated favourably and decreed a small lifelike sticker of Barrack Obama comes with every Jar of Robertson's Jam and Marmalade. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWalkingMan Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The Special Relationship....UK and USA. To celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee..The USA will be printing a limited edition $100 Bill with our Queens head on it. He Majesty has reciprocated favourably and decreed a small lifelike sticker of Barrack Obama comes with every Jar of Robertson's Jam and Marmalade. Tacky, low-brow and very, very simple attempt at humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliaminBKK Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The Special Relationship....UK and USA. To celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee..The USA will be printing a limited edition $100 Bill with our Queens head on it. He Majesty has reciprocated favourably and decreed a small lifelike sticker of Barrack Obama comes with every Jar of Robertson's Jam and Marmalade. What ? is this an attempt at humour ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaPhom Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The Special Relationship....UK and USA. To celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee..The USA will be printing a limited edition $100 Bill with our Queens head on it. He Majesty has reciprocated favourably and decreed a small lifelike sticker of Barrack Obama comes with every Jar of Robertson's Jam and Marmalade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Lucky him. In Thailand, an old man have to go 15 years jail for sending 3 offensive SMS. But in Thailand the old man can walk out if he applies for pardon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The Special Relationship....UK and USA. To celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee..The USA will be printing a limited edition $100 Bill with our Queens head on it. He Majesty has reciprocated favourably and decreed a small lifelike sticker of Barrack Obama comes with every Jar of Robertson's Jam and Marmalade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivas Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 The Special Relationship....UK and USA. To celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee..The USA will be printing a limited edition $100 Bill with our Queens head on it. He Majesty has reciprocated favourably and decreed a small lifelike sticker of Barrack Obama comes with every Jar of Robertson's Jam and Marmalade. What you rolling around the floor for ?? I have just seen them in Tesco's this morning ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddy Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 So much for freedom of speech....whether you like or agree with it or not. Racially abusive messages are considered criminal offences now in the UK. You cannot say they should be allowed under freedom of speech. Yes, and its another politically correct law that shouldn't have even got on the statute books. It IS a freedom of speech issue - Whatever happened to "I might not like what you are saying but I,ll fight to the death for the right for you to say it"?. Once a Government starts to dictate what you can and cannot say it is the start of stepping down a very dark road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkockney Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 So much for freedom of speech....whether you like or agree with it or not. Racially abusive messages are considered criminal offences now in the UK. You cannot say they should be allowed under freedom of speech. Yes, and its another politically correct law that shouldn't have even got on the statute books. It IS a freedom of speech issue - Whatever happened to "I might not like what you are saying but I,ll fight to the death for the right for you to say it"?. Once a Government starts to dictate what you can and cannot say it is the start of stepping down a very dark road. Voltaire died in 1778 and thankfully the world's come on leaps and bounds since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 So much for freedom of speech....whether you like or agree with it or not. Racially abusive messages are considered criminal offences now in the UK. You cannot say they should be allowed under freedom of speech. Yes, and its another politically correct law that shouldn't have even got on the statute books. It IS a freedom of speech issue - Whatever happened to "I might not like what you are saying but I,ll fight to the death for the right for you to say it"?. Once a Government starts to dictate what you can and cannot say it is the start of stepping down a very dark road. Basically all (left, right, political correct, muslims etc etc) in Austria and most probably in every country agree to "freedom of opinion(speech) for my opinion". But for any other opinion they want cruel laws. Freedom of speech is already history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkockney Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) So much for freedom of speech....whether you like or agree with it or not. Racially abusive messages are considered criminal offences now in the UK. You cannot say they should be allowed under freedom of speech. Yes, and its another politically correct law that shouldn't have even got on the statute books. It IS a freedom of speech issue - Whatever happened to "I might not like what you are saying but I,ll fight to the death for the right for you to say it"?. Once a Government starts to dictate what you can and cannot say it is the start of stepping down a very dark road. Basically all (left, right, political correct, muslims etc etc) in Austria and most probably in every country agree to "freedom of opinion(speech) for my opinion". But for any other opinion they want cruel laws. Freedom of speech is already history. Freedom of speech does not mean I can shout bomb on a plane, shout fire in a cinema or throw insults on the basis of colour or nationality. Why is that so hard to understand? So in your worlds I should be legally free to defame and insult you anyway I want and hide behind freedom of speech? Edited March 26, 2012 by bangkockney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Freedom of speech does not mean I can shout bomb on a plane, shout fire in a cinema or throw insults on the basis of colour or nationality. Why is that so hard to understand? So in your worlds I should be legally free to defame and insult you anyway I want and hide behind freedom of speech? Shouting bomb on a plane or shout fire in a cinema is something complete different. It is allowed to speak about fires in cinemas, just not making the panic. Yes it should be complete legal free to insult me about my nationality, skin color, size of nose, religion or whatever. I actually would fight for the right.... Always there will be people who abuse freedom of speech. We must live with that. Can't discuss about the royal family Can't discuss the holocaust Not allowed to mention that some people have different skin color Not allowed to mention that you don't like the ideas of some religions Need to rename holidays and food because someone feel insulted Not allowed to doubt the decisions of courts Not allowed to glorify anything in Nazi Germany Not allowed to glorify anything communist (and the way is not far to laws that prohibit to criticize the government or undermine the ability to defense the country, we had that already) Do you want to obey ALL these laws (not picking just a few of them). I prefer that I am not protected and can be called ugly skin longnose paedophil, but I am also allowed to speak whatever I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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