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Seriously, how the hell did this even get to trial.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/8673196.stm

http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5987450/a-disgraceful-prosecution-that-should-shame-britain.thtml

A guilty verdict, a £1000 fine AND a criminal record? WTF?

Strike another blow against Free speech and having a sense of humour... :*

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Why hasn't this started a craze of people threatening to blow up airports over twitter?

i did think if tweeting something like that but thought i had better not just encase them MI5 & FBI sneaky bastards caught up with me, if they went after real threats the world wouldn't be in the state it is, they just go after the easy options = lazy.

anyway Sir Stephen Fry is a proper gent for this

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http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/man+fined+for+twitter+airport+aposbomb+threatapos/3643287

In a statement, the Crown Prosecution Service told Channel 4 News: "While Mr Chambers may have meant this as a joke, the airport could not risk treating it as such. The threat had to be taken seriously by the airport authorities, who contacted the police. It caused unnecessary disruption because of a menacing communication.

"There is nothing funny about remarks of this nature as they can cause serious disruption to transport services and divert police attention away from genuine crimes. Where a complaint is made to the police and they pass a file of evidence to the CPS we will examine it. If the evidence is there, then the public interest will usually require a prosecution.

um hello, CPS? These innocent comment DID divert police attention away from serious crimes, due to some idiot's lack of a sense of humour!

Also that line in the CPS statement about causing unnecessary disruption contradicts an earlier point in the article that says "The court heard the tweet had no operational effect on the airport.".

It's not like a real threat would actually be made over Twitter... I think this should have gone before a Jury and not Magistrates who are probably naive about technology in general and Twitter in particular... if it had to go to Court at all.

And yeah, Stephen Fry, someone who DOES understand Twitter and technology, being an absolute legend as ever :D

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It's not like a real threat would actually be made over Twitter

exactly

maybe next time it will have to trend :giggle:

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  • 4 months later...

Sorry to resurrect a thread, but this is relevant and I didn't think it needed a new thread;

Just an update, this guy has taken this to appeal which is happening right now at Doncaster Crown Court.

One of the things that has come out so far is the Prosecution trying to desperately stall for time and get the appeal chucked out, and that the Policeman who interviewed Chambers about it was just one in a long line of people who could tell it was obviously a joke (something the Crown Prosecution Service conveniently omitted from the original case and information the defending lawyers had no access to at the time). Even he took the text fully in context (i.e as a JOKE) like the guy at the airport, it appears only the CPS failed in that regard... a rather important failing.

"Biggest news so far is that interviewing police officer concluded that it was only a joke for his twitter followers."

"For some reason, CPS failed to disclose this police officer's evaluation to defence at first trial... " are two of the Tweets from the Lawyer fighting the appeal on Mr Chambers' side.

BBC TV Coverage attempted to recreate the tweet.. shame they got it completely wrong, with their wording of it turning it into a direct threat and missing out vital words, taking it right out of context (Once again I lose faith in the impartiality of the BBC, but that's a discussion for another time).

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Strike another blow against Free speech and having a sense of humour... :*

Sorry, but in this day + age of terrorism, things like that are just not funny!!

It's the same if you go to an airport and are stupid enough to say you have a bomb with you, you wind up being strip-searched, arrested, etc., etc. How can the airport tell from a tweet what is going on in someone's head.

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By all means bring him in for questionning, establish the facts (i.e it was a frustrated rant) maybe doing a bit of an investigation into whether this guy is likely to commit an atrocious act of terrorism without hauling it through the courts and drawing it out for months and months. I.E sort it at grassroots.

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Yeah, especially when no-one investigating took it seriously in the first place.

Also the CPS fail for not making some evidence available at the original trial (i.e the interviewing policeman's conclusion that it was NOT a viable threat). I could understand the sentence if they'd investigated and maybe found evidence that he had the means as well as motive. Kinda sickens me how this guy was convicted, but the people threatening troops returning from Afghanistan get nothing done about them, and don't even get me started on Al-magrahi. Seems to me he was probably seen as an easy target by an officious idiot at the CPS, even when the airport and police had deemed this a NON-CREDIBLE threat.

Yeh, but how can anyone be certain it was "without intent" without bringing the person in for questioning.

They did bring him in for questioning. The interviewing officer said his conclusion was that it wasn't a credible threat, and that was after the Airport Security guy and the Airport Manager also deemed it not a genuine threat. It should have been filed away at that point with the guy given a warning to be more careful.

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Sorry, but in this day + age of terrorism, things like that are just not funny!!

It's the same if you go to an airport and are stupid enough to say you have a bomb with you, you wind up being strip-searched, arrested, etc., etc. How can the airport tell from a tweet what is going on in someone's head.

shouldn't have delayed him then ?

yeah like a terrorists is going to tweet that they are going to blow up a airport, yes the CIA do follow what people say on the internet *go fuck yourself CIA wankers lots of people know who really did 9/11*

seems strange to arrest this guy for a tweet when Tony Blair releases real terrorists who have murdered hundreds of people & then invites then to number 10 for tea & biscuits all in the name of peace, everyone calls him a god for bringing about peace, epic fail !

good on Stephen Fry for helping fund the legal fee's for this fake trial :)

as for bringing him in for questioning :hahaha: you really have no idea do you

http://www.daelnet.co.uk/features/menwithhill/ that's just the start !

about time the CPS did something about real criminals, no wonder nobody has any respect for the police.

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Sort of reminds me of Outnumbered, that episode when they were at the airport...

whats that ?

i suppose i should be charged with something then for playing games like this ?

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whats that ?

i suppose i should be charged with something then for playing games like this ?

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yeah, and Die Hard Trilogy from back in the day... *feels old saying that*.

and now anyone who OWNS a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator is automatically a terrorist...

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