Censorship and Social Media

[eaglesdare]

the woman in the link below, 6 months jail for writing some nasty words.

And it all poses a question : what is the difference between her writing nasty violent words and any politician who writes a cheque for 500 million quids worth of armaments ?

Woman gets six-month jail sentence for 'catastrophic' social media threats to Simon Harris

Sandra Barry broke down at Dublin District Court today, where her messages were described as having occurred during “three minutes of madness”.

www.thejournal.ie

As much as I agree with you and I don't like some politicians you can't really go around saying things like “I hope somebody does something to your family” to him.

It sounds like she was drunk while sending them. I think a suspended sentence and a fine would have given her a lesson.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

the woman in the link below, 6 months jail for writing some nasty words.

And it all poses a question : what is the difference between her writing nasty violent words and any politician who writes a cheque for 500 million quids worth of armaments ?

Woman gets six-month jail sentence for 'catastrophic' social media threats to Simon Harris

Sandra Barry broke down at Dublin District Court today, where her messages were described as having occurred during “three minutes of madness”.

www.thejournal.ie

Do you seriously not know the answer to your question?

She directly called for harm to be done to someone.

Someone paying that much for armaments is most likely going to work for, or represent, a government. Therefore they are not themselves harming anyone. They are helping provide a country with the means to defend themselves or attack others. It’s a job.

 

[Stirlingsays]

I've only really read the headline but personally I think when it comes to the 'hurty words' stuff going straight to jail seems a bit much.
Some people have mental health problems which means that sabbaticals from social media isn't the worst option.....if other people's opinions hurt so much then just don't do political culture war on the Internet.

But some, maybe this being a case in point, can't help themselves?

I'd say that writing what she wrote is out of order......A prison sentence seems like a hammer to crack a nut, kind of the powerful taking advantage over the powerless. Seems like they made an example of her.

Death threats to people are made all the time and many many times to public figures and of course private ones. You see some real twisted stuff but what this smacks to me is of political figures getting hyper sensitive protection compared to others.

Perhaps something like a contact ban, with suspended fines would be a more sensible first option.

But is this the new norm over in the land of Guinness?

Would this be done for Farage or Starmer?