If you are one of those people who vent for Twitereye, and it is that a user of said social network called Joseph Kellyhas been sentenced in the United Kingdom to carry out 150 hours of community service for posting a tweet”grossly offensiveabout Captain Sir Tom Moore, a British Army officer who raised money for the NHS (National Health Service in England) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As indicated, the captain went viral after going around his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday. Later he was knighted by the Queen. The day after his death, Joseph, 36, tweeted “the only good british soldier is an action soldier, burn the old man burnAfter this, he was found guilty in February of last year and was facing to a possible jail sentence. Her case drew attention to often-criticized British legislation that allows social media users to be prosecuted for posting.”seriously offensive“.
As the national newspaper reported The National, Joseph was sentenced on Wednesday. His defense argued that Kelly had few Twitter followers at the time; that he had been drinking before writing the message; and who accessed Twitter to delete your tweet just 20 minutes after sending it.
“He accepts that he was wrong. He did not foresee what was going to happen. He took steps almost immediately to delete the tweet, but by then the genie was out of the bottle,” his attorney Tony Callahan said. “Their criminality level of his was a post while intoxicated, at a time when he was having emotional problems, which he regretted and deleted almost instantly.”
Joseph Kelly was found guilty under section 127 of the UK Communications Act. The law was originally intended to go after people who said offensive things on the phone, but has since been used to police “severely offensive” messages on social media. He was sentenced to 18 months of supervision 150 hours of unpaid work in the form of a restitution order to the Scottish community.
“My opinion is, having heard the evidence, that this is a highly offensive tweet. The deterrence is really to show people that despite the steps he took to try to remember things, as soon as he hit the blue button, that’s all. It’s important for other people to realize how quickly things can get out of hand. You’re a good example of that, not having a lot of Twitter followers,” said Sheriff Adrian Cottam. .
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