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> After all, England almost jailed something for training their dog to give the Hitler salute or for posting something mean on Facebook. reply. He wasn't 'almo
by kristianc 9y ago
> After all, England almost jailed something for training their dog to give the Hitler salute or for posting something mean on Facebook.
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He wasn't 'almost jailed' - he was fined £800. And the video involved him saying 'Gas the Jews' over and over again to his dog, to which the dog reacted.
- firic 9y agoI don't know how close he was to being jailed, but Washington Post (MSM) wrote "Now it will probably land Meechan in prison." [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/03/21/for-weeks-he-trained-a-dog-to-do-a-nazi-salute-the-man-was-just-convicted-of-a-hate-crime/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-intersect/wp...
- kristianc 9y agoTypically the law in this country has been to impose relatively small fines for malicious communications, and even these are sometimes dropped on appeal, as with the Twitter Joke Trial. The WaPo has it wrong in this instance - Britain isn't Thailand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial?wprov=sfla1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial?wprov=sfl...
- stef25 9y agoThe real crime here that it wasn't funny at all. But imposing fines for telling bad jokes and spending tens of thousands of GBP of tax payers money is just wrong, wrong, wrong.