Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts

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Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @08:10PM from the 140-characters-of-terror dept.

judgecorp writes "Paul Chambers, the Briton whose joke on Twitter backfired, will be back in court following a legal stalemate, after more than two years. Chambers joked about blowing up South Yorkshire's Robin Hood airport in January 2010, and was arrested and fined for 'sending a public electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.' His resultant criminal record lost him his job as an accountant. Now his appeal has been heard, but the two judges disagreed with each other, so Chambers will be back in court again."

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Re:Even free speech has its limit (Score:0, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @12:49AM (#40152141)

How about death threats towards spammers ?

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