On Trial for Inappropriate Tweet

While the newly re-elected politicians discuss the voting system, the surveillance state continues to criminalise objectively innocent people:

A 26-year-old man will go on trial today for allegedly posting a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport “sky high”.

Paul Chambers denied “tweeting” the message about Robin Hood Airport, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, on January 6.

Chambers, of Byram Court, Balby, Doncaster, was arrested after the post was picked up on the social networking site by routine investigations.

He pleaded not guilty to a single charge of sending, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.

As I said after his arrest, it’s an absolute insanity that an ill-judged comment, intended only for his Twitter followers, should then be put on trial for sending a ‘malicious message’. Absolutely insane. Hopefully Allen Green is right and there’ll be a not guilty verdict or better momentarily.

UPDATE: Chambers has just been found guilty.

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