Mean tweets can get you jailed

[LuFins Dad]

I’m going to go back to something that @Mik and I said in the Will Smith thread. Sometimes it’s okay to beat the crap out of somebody. Sending somebody to jail over a tweet is fundamentally wrong. Letting it go feels wrong. Beating the crap out of the guy? Yeah, that feels about right.

[Copper]

I just assume the jail time includes the beating.

[Horace]

If the tweet had been equally offensive but funny or clever, I bet he wouldn’t have been prosecuted.

[Doctor Phibes]

He wasn't actually jailed, he got community service, so he'll be doing something useful for a change.

Seems like a better solution than either jail or beating the crap out of him.

[Horace]

IMO the best solution is no legal action against him whatsoever, and no beating. How about he just be considered a miserable douche and everybody moves on.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mean tweets can get you jailed:

He wasn't actually jailed, he got community service, so he'll be doing something useful for a change.

Yes. That's why the title says "CAN get you jailed." Theoretically, they could have jailed him>

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/oct/08/april-jones-matthew-woods-jailed

Seems like a better solution than either jail or beating the crap out of him.

[Mik]

@Horace said in Mean tweets can get you jailed:

IMO the best solution is no legal action against him whatsoever, and no beating. How about he just be considered a miserable douche and everybody moves on.

Like it used to be before every idiot in the world got a global soapbox from which to spew stupidity.

[Catseye3]

@Mik Oh, you recall that too?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Mean tweets can get you jailed:

IMO the best solution is no legal action against him whatsoever, and no beating. How about he just be considered a miserable douche and everybody moves on.

Yeah, that would undoubtedly be better. Prosecuting people for this type of shit isn’t a great idea.

[Mik]

@Catseye3 said in Mean tweets can get you jailed:

@Mik Oh, you recall that too?

I do indeed.