https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/clipped-video-mans-sentencing-over-social-media-comments-is-misleading-2024-08-16/ Britain is still fucking nuts, but…
Nearly two years in prison for online criticism… unless you think he literally meant people’s dogs should be smashing a hotel. The thing with long form articles that “fact check” is they are often intentionally misleading because most people don’t take the time to read past the title. He was arrested for a critique of the society he lives in. There’s no way anyone should spend two years in prison for this:
(Source the article you linked)
You didn’t include the next section of the article. He gave a location, time, and said he would do it too. Britain is still an Orwellian shithole, but these types of threats are prosecuted if there is violence that happens afterwards. Depends on the country too.
Tbf 50 years ago you'd hear worse than this in any pub in Britain. The problem is a lack of privacy in communication. Most people are unaware of how public their online discourse is.
I actually misread that, I thought it was the other user giving the time and place… fair enough. I agree that you shouldn’t incite violence and definitely shouldn’t make a plan for it to happen. All the best 🤝
