Good, it wasn’t a nice tweet, but nothing to jail someone over.
Maybe the CPS could now start looking at Tom Moore’s family? Before the daughter starts lining up an elderly Ukrainian refugee to march up n down her garden.
Good. The tweet was grossly offensive but no one should go to jail for that.
Where are all the free speech and cancel culture warriors on this? I haven’t heard anything from Oliver Dowden or Toby Young about the basic right to call old dead guys names.
Good, and even the community service is a bit much imo. The guy just seems like a total fucking moron and a pathetic loser, too stupid to engage brain before thinking he’s being “funny” or “edgy” on social media.
Wasn’t exactly a call to arms was it? His punishment should be everyone around him thinking he’s a tosser, which they no doubt do.
More important to find out if Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband will avoid jail for looting his charity.
Maybe that gents daughter and husband should see jail for potential fraud in his name, way to tarnish a legacy!
Good. Nobody should be sent to prison over a fucking tweet, no matter how distasteful or offensive you may find the contents of it.
It’s disgusting that jail was even a consideration here. No one should ever be jailed for a tweet (or indeed, for anything else they’ve said in any public forum).
The guys a cunt but that isnt jail worthy. Shouldnt have been arrested either.
What a waste of time and money, should have never had any kind of police intervention in the first place
Genuine question here – can someone explain to me what crime the tweeter was being charged with? From the snippets I am aware of about the tweet’s contents, obviously it was awful, but I didn’t think being awful was in itself a crime
I’m really interested to know how being obnoxious ‘passes the threshold for a custodial sentence’, but breaking lockdown rules at a time a deadly virus is circulating manages to completely evade investigation until a year later and only then under duress.
Good, the state should not be in the business of prosecuting anyone for offensive words. The fact jail time was even a possibility is concerning.
What’s the deal on this thread with comments starting with the word ‘Good’?
Worth mentioning that he was convicted, his sentence just didn’t include imprisonment. So it isn’t as bad as it could have been but it is still pretty bad.
Good. What a contemptible prick. But that shouldn’t be illegal.
My man, actually, got charged with a crime for speaking nothing but the truth. Shameful
Jailing him would have been a complete waste of public money. Why are we even considering prosecuting people for making silly jokes?
Good, twitter should never equal jail time apart from explicit threats to life
Hes guilty of being an edgelord not a criminal. Have these lads never heard of “sticks and stones” before. Surely there’s more important things to use taxpayer money on than this.
“the only good Brit soldier is a deed one”. “Burn auld fella, buuuuurn,”
Sounds about Scottish.
This coming from a Scottish person, but fuck me do I cringe at the “holier than thou” ScotNats, as if the British army doesn’t have shed loads of Scottish soldiers who are implicit in historic events.
Tom Moore wasn’t a hero and his family are a bunch of bellends
Every street in the country has more heroic people than Tom Moore, the weird media spin into trying to make out this fairly average man was some inspiration was incredibly odd.
Maybe, the police should look at Sir Tom’s daughter.
I’m sure she has a few skeletons…
Bojo and his party flouting covid laws (its swept away)
Catholic church noncing kids for decades (its swept away)
Guy makes a crass joke about a dead soldier ( wanting to send him to prison)
Our county is broken
Good, no one should be arrested for being offensive online. Only reason it even got so much attention is because everyone was sucking Captain Tom’s cock at the time anyway…
Tom was made famous for ‘helping the nhs’ and then went on holiday during a pandemic, caught the deadly virus he was ‘helping’ them deal with, and then promptly died, adding strain on the same nhs he was cast as the hero for protecting. And now on top of that, it seems his family are embezzling the charitable funds as well! The whole story is absurd, and no one should face any punishment beyond personal judgement for tweeting something mean about him ffs. Tom was never a hero, shouldn’t be praised for being one, and should be able to be criticised without potentially facing prison time.
150 hours of unpaid work for a fkn tweet is a joke. What the fk are we doing?!
I do find it funny how different the comment section here is from the one about someone being jailed for Tweeting racist things to Rashford.
Good. It’s freedom of speech, you can’t have it both ways if you’re outraged at the current state of cancel culture and “woke lefties” yet you’re crying about some hurty words someone said on Twitter
Shouldnt have been prosecuted in the first place. Twatty thing to do but being a twat on the internet shouldnt result in plod knocking on your door. That applies to this prat, count dankula and dozens of others.
Good, nobody should be jailed over saying something considered offensive by some.
Where would it have ended? Moaning about the Queen and getting jailed? Slagging off BoJo and getting jailed? What about criticising a religion?
Should never have been a police matter. CPS can’t even get rapists into court but they can threaten someone with jail for slagging off a dead old bloke?
Terrifying.
150 hours community service for saying someone should burn, what the fuck that’s ridiculous. She was making a point about soldiers as a whole. I don’t agree with it but so fucking what I hope she costs the government thousands of pounds in damage from whatever work she does. Teach them a thing or two.
Good, I don’t agree with the tweet but it shouldn’t be against the law to express an opinion.
> At one point in the trial Sheriff Adrian Cottam threatened to put Kelly in the cells if he did not stop shaking his head as prosecutor Liam Haggert spoke about Sir Tom.
I guess grossly offensive head movements are also illegal now?
Who gives a flying fuck? He was just some old geezer who walked around his garden. Sure he was nice but he’s not a bloody saint. He was just a puppet his daughter was using to bleed the UK public for money.
Twitter is full of knobs that’s not news. Imagine putting someone in prison for a tweet. Insanity.
Good. Yeah fuck the guy who sent it, but I don’t want to live in a country that imprisons people for tweets.
Although there are others who were arrested for saying stupid and disgusting things online…
I don’t get it.
We were quick to charge and convict a man for typing out an offensive tweet calling for a deceased British war veteran turned charity fundraiser to “burn” – but we’re ignoring the alleged embezzlement of charity funds within the Captain Tom Foundation?
Oh wait, yeah I do get it. It’s because the rich can get away with virtually anything.
I mean for tweeting words he shouldn’t be jailed even if he is a cunt
I found his comment funny actually. And I agree with him! Nonsense that he got community service for that. Am I gonna get community service now for saying that I agree with him? Not conforming to “newspeak”? Welcome to 1984.
Great news. Nobody should be going to jail for a tweet in the UK, even if it was ‘grossly offensive’.
GOOD
it was a dick thing to say but words shouldn’t get people sent to prison
One thing I was appalled by in this case was the fact that the man was convicted for insulting a *dead person.* No matter what the esteem he is held in, the fact is Captain Sir Tom Moore is *dead* and cannot be hurt in any way. Why the hell this appalling case wasn’t appealed all the way up to the UK Supreme Court or the ECtHR is beyond me.
Good. No one should go to jail over offensive tweets.
Police trouble for a tweet? If it was about a random guy I’m pretty sure nothing would happen, max a ban on twitter.
Fucking bullshit that this ever made its way to a court. Why does they guy have to say they admit doing wrong? There is nothing wrong about the comment. Distasteful? Sure, but it shouldn’t be illegal.
He went to court for that? I’ve heard some Irish say way worse things about British servicemen!
People who that say they believe in freedom of speech but don’t actually believe in freedom of speech always puzzle me.
The key word in the phrase “freedom of speech” is “freedom’.
Freedom. We still all know what freedom is, right?
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Good, it wasn’t a nice tweet, but nothing to jail someone over.
Maybe the CPS could now start looking at Tom Moore’s family? Before the daughter starts lining up an elderly Ukrainian refugee to march up n down her garden.
Good. The tweet was grossly offensive but no one should go to jail for that.
Where are all the free speech and cancel culture warriors on this? I haven’t heard anything from Oliver Dowden or Toby Young about the basic right to call old dead guys names.
Edit: to clarify, Dowden [had a go at independent charities wanting to not be associated with slavers](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9982577/amp/Boris-wages-war-cancel-culture-PM-seeking-new-charities-chief-stamp-hysteria.html), so he must be extremely upset that free speech is being abridged with criminal charges in this case
Edit edit: [spiked wrote about it a year ago with no byline for some reason](https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/09/vile-tweets-are-still-free-speech/)
Good, and even the community service is a bit much imo. The guy just seems like a total fucking moron and a pathetic loser, too stupid to engage brain before thinking he’s being “funny” or “edgy” on social media.
Wasn’t exactly a call to arms was it? His punishment should be everyone around him thinking he’s a tosser, which they no doubt do.
More important to find out if Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband will avoid jail for looting his charity.
Maybe that gents daughter and husband should see jail for potential fraud in his name, way to tarnish a legacy!
Good. Nobody should be sent to prison over a fucking tweet, no matter how distasteful or offensive you may find the contents of it.
It’s disgusting that jail was even a consideration here. No one should ever be jailed for a tweet (or indeed, for anything else they’ve said in any public forum).
The guys a cunt but that isnt jail worthy. Shouldnt have been arrested either.
What a waste of time and money, should have never had any kind of police intervention in the first place
Genuine question here – can someone explain to me what crime the tweeter was being charged with? From the snippets I am aware of about the tweet’s contents, obviously it was awful, but I didn’t think being awful was in itself a crime
I’m really interested to know how being obnoxious ‘passes the threshold for a custodial sentence’, but breaking lockdown rules at a time a deadly virus is circulating manages to completely evade investigation until a year later and only then under duress.
Good, the state should not be in the business of prosecuting anyone for offensive words. The fact jail time was even a possibility is concerning.
What’s the deal on this thread with comments starting with the word ‘Good’?
Worth mentioning that he was convicted, his sentence just didn’t include imprisonment. So it isn’t as bad as it could have been but it is still pretty bad.
Good. What a contemptible prick. But that shouldn’t be illegal.
My man, actually, got charged with a crime for speaking nothing but the truth. Shameful
Jailing him would have been a complete waste of public money. Why are we even considering prosecuting people for making silly jokes?
Good, twitter should never equal jail time apart from explicit threats to life
Hes guilty of being an edgelord not a criminal. Have these lads never heard of “sticks and stones” before. Surely there’s more important things to use taxpayer money on than this.
“the only good Brit soldier is a deed one”. “Burn auld fella, buuuuurn,”
Sounds about Scottish.
This coming from a Scottish person, but fuck me do I cringe at the “holier than thou” ScotNats, as if the British army doesn’t have shed loads of Scottish soldiers who are implicit in historic events.
Tom Moore wasn’t a hero and his family are a bunch of bellends
Every street in the country has more heroic people than Tom Moore, the weird media spin into trying to make out this fairly average man was some inspiration was incredibly odd.
Maybe, the police should look at Sir Tom’s daughter.
I’m sure she has a few skeletons…
Bojo and his party flouting covid laws (its swept away)
Catholic church noncing kids for decades (its swept away)
Guy makes a crass joke about a dead soldier ( wanting to send him to prison)
Our county is broken
Good, no one should be arrested for being offensive online. Only reason it even got so much attention is because everyone was sucking Captain Tom’s cock at the time anyway…
Tom was made famous for ‘helping the nhs’ and then went on holiday during a pandemic, caught the deadly virus he was ‘helping’ them deal with, and then promptly died, adding strain on the same nhs he was cast as the hero for protecting. And now on top of that, it seems his family are embezzling the charitable funds as well! The whole story is absurd, and no one should face any punishment beyond personal judgement for tweeting something mean about him ffs. Tom was never a hero, shouldn’t be praised for being one, and should be able to be criticised without potentially facing prison time.
150 hours of unpaid work for a fkn tweet is a joke. What the fk are we doing?!
I do find it funny how different the comment section here is from the one about someone being jailed for Tweeting racist things to Rashford.
Good. It’s freedom of speech, you can’t have it both ways if you’re outraged at the current state of cancel culture and “woke lefties” yet you’re crying about some hurty words someone said on Twitter
Shouldnt have been prosecuted in the first place. Twatty thing to do but being a twat on the internet shouldnt result in plod knocking on your door. That applies to this prat, count dankula and dozens of others.
Good, nobody should be jailed over saying something considered offensive by some.
Where would it have ended? Moaning about the Queen and getting jailed? Slagging off BoJo and getting jailed? What about criticising a religion?
Should never have been a police matter. CPS can’t even get rapists into court but they can threaten someone with jail for slagging off a dead old bloke?
Terrifying.
150 hours community service for saying someone should burn, what the fuck that’s ridiculous. She was making a point about soldiers as a whole. I don’t agree with it but so fucking what I hope she costs the government thousands of pounds in damage from whatever work she does. Teach them a thing or two.
Good, I don’t agree with the tweet but it shouldn’t be against the law to express an opinion.
> At one point in the trial Sheriff Adrian Cottam threatened to put Kelly in the cells if he did not stop shaking his head as prosecutor Liam Haggert spoke about Sir Tom.
I guess grossly offensive head movements are also illegal now?
Who gives a flying fuck? He was just some old geezer who walked around his garden. Sure he was nice but he’s not a bloody saint. He was just a puppet his daughter was using to bleed the UK public for money.
Twitter is full of knobs that’s not news. Imagine putting someone in prison for a tweet. Insanity.
Good. Yeah fuck the guy who sent it, but I don’t want to live in a country that imprisons people for tweets.
Although there are others who were arrested for saying stupid and disgusting things online…
I don’t get it.
We were quick to charge and convict a man for typing out an offensive tweet calling for a deceased British war veteran turned charity fundraiser to “burn” – but we’re ignoring the alleged embezzlement of charity funds within the Captain Tom Foundation?
Oh wait, yeah I do get it. It’s because the rich can get away with virtually anything.
I mean for tweeting words he shouldn’t be jailed even if he is a cunt
I found his comment funny actually. And I agree with him! Nonsense that he got community service for that. Am I gonna get community service now for saying that I agree with him? Not conforming to “newspeak”? Welcome to 1984.
Great news. Nobody should be going to jail for a tweet in the UK, even if it was ‘grossly offensive’.
GOOD
it was a dick thing to say but words shouldn’t get people sent to prison
One thing I was appalled by in this case was the fact that the man was convicted for insulting a *dead person.* No matter what the esteem he is held in, the fact is Captain Sir Tom Moore is *dead* and cannot be hurt in any way. Why the hell this appalling case wasn’t appealed all the way up to the UK Supreme Court or the ECtHR is beyond me.
Good. No one should go to jail over offensive tweets.
Police trouble for a tweet? If it was about a random guy I’m pretty sure nothing would happen, max a ban on twitter.
Fucking bullshit that this ever made its way to a court. Why does they guy have to say they admit doing wrong? There is nothing wrong about the comment. Distasteful? Sure, but it shouldn’t be illegal.
He went to court for that? I’ve heard some Irish say way worse things about British servicemen!
People who that say they believe in freedom of speech but don’t actually believe in freedom of speech always puzzle me.
The key word in the phrase “freedom of speech” is “freedom’.
Freedom. We still all know what freedom is, right?