Watch what you say?!?
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- autoflavour0
watch what you say indeed.. my thread regarding things which could improve QBN, was deleted.
- jaylarson0
2:42
- detritus0
Common sense prevails!
No.. wait..
- eating_tv0
Bomb. Bomb. Bomb.
- cannonball19780
it would be nice if this pursuit of justice was more about catching bombers than about preemptive this or that.
- comicsans0
Spartacus was a hero, the other slaves were demonstrating their support and preventing him from being discovered, there is no similarity to this tosser who published a threat online.
The police are OBLIGED to investigate, a prosecution was appropriate. This campaign is just a bunch of other self-regarding tossers who think tweeting is making a serious point.
- Peter0
Is a message more "serious" depending on the media it's served on?
While this may seem like (a) clueless old fart(s) of a police ensemble who should know on what basis they are basing the arrest on:
"Chambers had to explain to the police department what Twitter was and how it worked"
Put it in another context. Say, Chambers was an Arab and instead of twitter he put the same message in a video put on the web for everyone to see.
- ps. if you get angry I put Arab in there I think I've proven another point. Try replacing "media" with something else.Peter
- whatthefunk0
Maybe the government and courts needed to establish a precedent and this 26 yo dude was the perfect victim to use without eliciting some grand media controversy. Most of me thinks this is way wrong but a small part of me thinks man, you can't mess around with those type of comments anymore, even in jest - so idk.
- akrokdesign0
well, you know you can't say the word _______!
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______!moIdero
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- ukit0
‘My first thought upon hearing it was the police was that perhaps a member of my family had been in an accident,’ 26-year-old Mr Chambers told The Independent.
“‘Then they said I was being arrested under the Terrorism Act and produced a piece of paper. It was a print-out of my Twitter page. That was when it dawned on me.’”
While being questioned on suspicion of conspiring to create a bomb hoax at the police station, Chambers had to explain to the police department what Twitter was and how it worked.
- ukit0
^ Like at the end of Seinfeld where they all get locked away for being assholes?:) Cmon now...this is clearly ridiculous.
- rosem0
I say good. It's about time we punish a legitimate asshole.
- whatthefunk
#IAmSpartacus
http://mashable.com/2010/11/11/t…Wonder if this could happen based on something posted here?
The South Yorkshire man who was recently convicted for joking about bombing an airport on Twitter is now just one of many who have done the exact same thing.
Paul Chambers’s original tweet, “Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!” was meant as a joke, but Judge Jacqueline Davis saw things differently. She thought the tweet was “menacing in its content,” dismissing Chambers’s appeal to the original sentence, a £1,000 fine.
Furthermore, Chambers has been ordered to pay an additional £2,000 to cover the legal bills, and lost his job as a financial manager as a consequence of his arrest. Initially, it looked like Chambers might be charged under bomb hoax and anti-terrorism legislation. However, according to The Guardian, Chambers was instead charged using a law that was aimed at nuisance calls. This law dates back to the 1930s.