Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet

, Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday. His defense argued that Kelly had few followers on Twitter at the time; that he had been drinking before writing the post; and that he deleted the tweet just 20 minutes after sending it.“He accepts he was wrong. He did not anticipate what would happen. He took steps almost immediately to delete the tweet but the genie was out of the bottle by then,” said Kelly’s defence agent Tony Callahan.

Kelly was sentenced to 18 months of supervision and 150 hours of unpaid work in the form of a Scottish Community Payback Order .Here’s why Twitter users in the UK can still be jailed for sending ‘grossly offensive’ tweets Sheriff Adrian Cottam, who sentenced Kelly, told the 36-year-old: “My view is, having heard the evidence, that this was a grossly offensive tweet. The deterrence is really to show people that despite the steps you took to try and recall matters, as soon as you press the blue button that’s it. It’s important for other people to realise how quickly things can get out of control. You are a good example of that, not having many followers.

Kelly was found guilty under Section 127 of the UK’s Communications Act. The law was originally intended to prosecute individuals saying offensive things on the telephone, but has since been used to police “grossly offensive” messages on social media. Hundreds of UK citizens have been found guilty under Section 127, often for insulting, abusing, and harassing public figures like athletes, journalists, and MPs.

It's scary that a supposedly 1st world country is jailing people for 'offensive posts' made online. Reminds me of the fascist hellscape depicted in V for Vendetta.

lmao how is the UK even real.

I will quote rage against the machine here, “freedom, yea right”

It's pick a random twitter insult and make an example out them for the rest of us. That book- Nineteen eighty four gets more real everyday.

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The only good UK prosecution's a dead one. Burn auld fellas, burn.

Unholy dystopian shithole.

I'm not at all against real life consequences for inciting violence or whatever online, but the tweet was stupidly tame and this is just excessive

This is so f*cking stupid. How can we have let it reach this point?

Freedom of speech?

If consequences are doled out by the State for what one says then there is no freedom of speech.

Wow. That is insane.

UK is messed up nonsense .

Wow drastic

Britain still has an arm of government that comes through inherited title and has right of veto over the elected house. Not even kidding - it is literally a fascist oligarch state. What is wrong with British people - like holy shit.

UK is probably the most fascist country on earth right now. Imagine having a government which is through 'inheritance', locking people up and sentencing them to 150 hours of community service for mean tweets - and claiming to be a democracy. What a joke.

freedom of speech is not freedom of consequence

Lol and they make fun of America

Tweet was wrong, but here again where is free speech. Government tries that here and there will be hell to pay.

Any reason you've not written about this Twitter replies error that's been on going for 3 days affecting 1000s of users?

Way to go, Britbongistan

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I didn't know China took over the UK.

Free speech is the protection of controversial speech, uncontroversial speech doesn't need to be protected.

Slippery slope. I can’t wait to risk jail time next time I call another Twitter user an idiot

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Sounds like something that would happen in China, not a respectable country like the UK, what counts as offensive? Who decides what words are jokes and what words are offensive, does sarcasm come into play, sounds like a law that's ripe for abuse on so many levels

Online just like in real world should be serious consequences for posting very offensive things. Some people forget that we are all humans and not just 1 and 0.

WHAT THE FUCK UK?

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Absurd.

How is this a crime? I see far, far worse tweets on a daily basis. Does UK have some BS free speech laws or something?

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