Brickbat: Bad Call

A British court sentenced Justin Lee Price, 19, to six weeks in jail for tweeting a racist message to soccer player Marcus Rashford. After Rashford missed a penalty kick in England's Euro 2020 finals loss to Italy, Price tweeted:  "YOU F****** STUPID N***** MISSING A FREE PEN MY DEAD NAN COULD HAVE SCORED THAT." Price pleaded guilty to sending a grossly offensive message by public communication network.

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[Adans smith]

Seems the Britts think 1984 was an instruction manual.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

To be fair, it beats investigating actual crime.

[TJJ2000]

The Speech Police are on active duty in Britain..
The US Nazi-Regime is pushing super hard to follow suit..

And in another article; How Democrats tried to repeal 1A while they pretend in their Nazi-fantasy land that setting the Curriculum in Commie-Education is a 1A issue and being completely ignorant that their "Commie" love is exactly why it's happening. As-is/was their Great Depression, Great Recession and Great Inflation... After a century they still haven't learned the basics that Communism and Socialism is NOT the foundation of the USA.

[Crackers Boy]

Twitter is a public communication service in the U.K.?

CB

[Cyto]

Oof. He said a bad word?

No, wait.... He implied a bad word?

And you get jail for that?

And we are not talking Saudi Arabia or Malaysia or North Korea??

And this is the future that advocates of hate speech laws want for us?

So... Why is there only one guy at reason who ever even mentions this stuff?

[Don't look at me!]

Did he use the actual forbidden words or really use ***** instead?

[mad.casual]

I'm no editor, but if he used the word and they edited it to n*****, shouldn't their be a [sic] or [redacted] or single-quotes or *something* in there?

[Rossami]

Depends on the author. The folks over on the Volokh Conspiracy side of the site will publish the unexpurgated word without flinching as long as it is a quote or necessary to fully understanding the issue(s) at hand. Authors of the "brickbat" series seem to be more likely to abbreviate or use transparent euphemisms.

And while yes, any edits to an actual quote should be clearly marked, that fundamental discipline seems to have been lost by most of the people calling themselves "journalists" these days.

[R Mac]

We should be more like Europe!

[Will Nonya]

I have a Brit friend who a few years ago argued that the US doesn't actually have things like freedom of speech. The rationale for this position was because we had to write them down, we don't actually have those freedoms. He claimed the UK didnt need to instantiate these into law because they were built into their culture...

So I always forward these stories to him.

[Bubba Jones]

LOL. We wrote them down because of our experience as Brits.

[Brandybuck]

This is mostly true. Freedom of speech was still a strange new idea when we codified it, but the experience with Great Britain certainly made us realize the importance of it.

[mad.casual]

So I always forward these stories to him.

You should attach the Criminal Justice Act (1988) and the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 as a matter of course. Just to remind him that, here in the states, we don't have laws against teens buying and selling knives because most have been taught or figured it out well before then. Maybe even highlight the part where a knife gets extra special attention if it's got the word 'zombie' printed on it.

[Oscar Gordon]

Wait a minute! I thought Twitter was a private company. So now it's a public communications network? Apparently the definition changes depending on whose ox is getting gored.