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The Twitter Joke Trial

marckee [Edit] [Delete] 15:09, 11 November '10

Has anyone been following this?

Paul Chambers tweeted a joke about blowing up Robin Hood Airport and was found guilty of ‘menace,’ being fined £1,000 as a punishment.

It’s his appeal today (apparently a judgement isn’t expected until 3pm), but in the meantime, a few people noticed that Conservative councillor Gareth Compton had called for a journalist to be stoned (http://yfrog.com/28bf1hp), and suggested that if Chambers had been found guilty, then so should Compton.

Turns out that Compton’s been arrested now too… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-gareth-compton-arrested-over-twitter-stoning-post-2131365.html

Compton’s one is a little worse, as it seems to be encouraging others to do the task, but it will be interesting to see how this pans out.


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