It’s fine to be relieved that Count Dankula isn’t going to prison and that the fine is so small, but we shouldn’t lull ourselves into thinking any of this was acceptable in a free society. A fine—no matter how small—is too large and too unacceptable a cost.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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I’m relieved he isn’t going to jail but any punishment for a joke is unacceptable
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A joke can & should NEVER be a hate crime since no offence or no hate directed at anyone. Bad taste maybe but courts should not be the arbiters of taste. The whole thing is a disgrace.
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What is to stop a hateful person claiming everything they say is just a joke?
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Nothing. But if they say it's a joke when they say it, it kinda either proves it is actually a joke or it defeats the purpose anyway. But in reality it's pretty obvious. Also nobody disputed Dankula was joking which makes it even more absurd.
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Count Dankula stands for free speech. Unless he doesn't agree with your politics, in which case he'll support calls for the government to ban youpic.twitter.com/t8ax9JKfqe
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Violence isn't covered by free speech. And since antifa are violent thugs who use violence, they're not covered.
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You are so right! The price has already been payed by the men and women who died for all of our freedom. Any sort of punishment is an insult to the community.
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This was to set precedent. The penalty was low to keep public outrage at a minimum. But that penalty will grow, and so will the scope of this law, as this becomes normalized.
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even worse: the law isn't applied evenly. Islamic hate and violence preachers get a pass
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Why even have Twitter and YouTube if you can get arrested / fined for the things you put on here, with rapidly changing laws and regulations in multiple different countries cross-competing with each other to see who can go insane the fastest?
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" If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country" - Mehmet Murat ildan When you can't show humour, even controversial humour, then what hope for the revelation of truth.
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free speech was already lost the day he was found guilty
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Hate speech fines: Social justice version of the cuss jar. But more nefarious and expensive.
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If a Nazi joke costs £800, could I call Sadiq Khan useless for £10? Is there a sale on when there have been another spate of murders in the capital?
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