The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced that it will issue guidance on criminal charges for people who posting abusive comments on social media networks following homophobic tweets about Olympic divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield. No...
Read moreThe ‘Twitter Joke Trial’ was back in the High Court yesterday, writes Kitty Stainsby. The appellant, Paul Chambers, was convicted of sending a menacing tweet about Robin Hood airport, which he meant as a joke, over two years ago. Paul Chambers, a...
Read moreJudges this week retired to mull over whether a Twitter message threatening to blow up a snowbound airport ‘sky high’ was a ‘a menace to society’. Illustration by Sehb Hundal. Paul Chambers, a 27-year old accountant, has said that he thought that...
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