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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Twitter user jailed in UK for "racist tweets"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Tue Mar 27 12:35:22 2012
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:23:33 -0700
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Twitter user jailed in UK for "racist tweets"
http://j.mp/GXSeNK (BBC)
There has also been a reaction on Twitter to the sentence, with Lord
Sugar - former Spurs chairman - saying "Be warned idiots!," while Gary
Lineker posted "Let it be a warning to all you immature souls.
#thinkbeforeyoutweet"
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There's a Big Brother is Watching Your Tweets aspect to this that
is difficult to ignore. Racist comments are never appropriate, but
criminalization of simple tweets seems inappropriate, even for the
seemingly rising police state sensibilities of the UK.
--Lauren--
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