> In Britain people have been sent to jail for tweeting or posting facebook statuses. In your link: - the nameless chip shop employee doesn't even get named,

> In Britain people have been sent to jail for tweeting or posting facebook statuses. In your link: - the nameless chip shop employee doesn't even get named, let alone do we hear of any punishment given. Instead, we just get a couple of paragraphs about a tweet of his - half a paragraph is spent on someone who got half a year in jail for using one word in a podcast; seems like more context would be valuable here - two twitter users making threats fronted up to court, but we never hear what happened to them. Freedom of Speech doesn't extend to making threats. - the Mandela-joke-maker supports the article's premise, yes - more threats on twitter were responded to, one leading to an arrest The only item that clearly supports the article's premise is the guy who made jokes about Mandela, but the whole article is written in a way that it's clear there's a lot of missing context. The one and only example that actually got jail time is only half a paragraph long and has feeble information available. Independently of whether or not you agree with the point it's making, this is a 'spun' article.