Bay Maximus
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lol. What does this even mean?
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Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days
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lol. What does this even mean?
Saint of Killers
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Some people think locking this moron up will lead to other cases where you're locked up for something truly innocuous. So I'm assuming Gahiggidy believes we're already there hence no slippery slope/thin end of the wedge.
KungFuBill
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He's a twat, the comments he made and the way he responded to others aren't suprising at all considering he's from Pontypridd
but I'm on the side of "jail time is not necessary". Swansea University did right by suspending him, that'll have a serious impact in the future. Especially at job interviews. Potential employers have likely seen this dickheaad's face, he'll forever be known as a racist (and that is totally okay - what he said was disgusting, vile and should not be tolerated). Hopefully it's made him realise that acting like a piece of shit isn't the way to get on in life.
I just don't like people being used as "an example"... If the system did this to him, that implies the same judgement will be made if 10s or 100s of people complain about other comments on social networking sites (YouTube racism and threats - we've all seen those) which are just as bad. Oh no, that won't happen - because 10s or 100s of people don't complain unless a celebrity or public figure is involved.
As an aside tothat when an average-joe individual receives hateful comments or threats via a social network site, the response is nowhere near this severe... Is that okay?
Disclosure: Everybody's entitled to an opinion I guess, and I stand by mine. It's made for some heated discussions with friends and family.
and he also looks like my ex which makes me want to punch him in the mouth a little bit
I just don't like people being used as "an example"... If the system did this to him, that implies the same judgement will be made if 10s or 100s of people complain about other comments on social networking sites (YouTube racism and threats - we've all seen those) which are just as bad. Oh no, that won't happen - because 10s or 100s of people don't complain unless a celebrity or public figure is involved.
As an aside tothat when an average-joe individual receives hateful comments or threats via a social network site, the response is nowhere near this severe... Is that okay?
Disclosure: Everybody's entitled to an opinion I guess, and I stand by mine. It's made for some heated discussions with friends and family.
Saint of Killers
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For once life isn't fair and I don't have a issue with it.
Part of me did feel uneasy when after the trial I heard some official type chap say something along the lines of We hope this goes to show you can't say any old thing online and get away with it -which made me think this may be a delayed reaction to the whole breaking of the Giggs injunction on Twitter thing. But internal conflict be damned! This guy really managed to push my buttons and now I'm so *so* happy to see him suffer.
Part of me did feel uneasy when after the trial I heard some official type chap say something along the lines of We hope this goes to show you can't say any old thing online and get away with it -which made me think this may be a delayed reaction to the whole breaking of the Giggs injunction on Twitter thing. But internal conflict be damned! This guy really managed to push my buttons and now I'm so *so* happy to see him suffer.
I was hoping you were being sarcastic, but then I saw your response to his appeal dismissal. Now I am not sure. You seem insane, but consistent.
Mammoth Jones
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This isn't bullying. This is a person being a racist douche. Which shouldn't be a crime.
The punishment for saying racist things should be to have people stop listening to you saying racist things.
He didn't prevent someone from getting a job because of their race. He wasn't violent to someone because of their race. His comments were posted on services which have ample mechanisms to allow you to not see things.
Hate where the law is heading in England and Wales.
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