17 Nov 2010 - He missed the plane. Now thousands of annoyed internet users (I am still thinking if that includes me or not) say the British authorities missed the joke and and are limiting freedom of speech. When Paul Chambers was arrested and fined for posting a jocular message on the Twitter platform in which he threatened to blow up northern England
Robin Hood Airport (Doncaster/Sheffield) if it did not re-open in time for his flight, it caused a minor stir. Now that a court has turned down his appeal, the internet community has come alive with outrage, with thousands of online fans posting comic (or maybe not really comic) threats to the regional airport out of solidairity. Rights groups have warned that the so-called "twitter-joke trial" has set an ugly precedent for free speech online and that he should not have been charged.
No comments:
Post a Comment