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I 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.washingtonpos

by firic 8y ago

I 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 8y ago
Typically 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...