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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Dennis Baron <<a href="mailto:no-reply-blog@illinois.edu">no-reply-blog@illinois.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[WOL] An inconvenient tweet: it's against the law in England</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date:
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<span style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); ">Posted by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:debaron@illinois.edu" style="color: rgb(112, 112, 112); ">Dennis Baron</a><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-weight: bold; ">An inconvenient tweet: it's against the law in England</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; ">At least six people have been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/tweets-after-soldiers-death-lands-some-in-jail/2013/06/01/7e91362e-c9d8-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html">arrested
in England</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for tweets about the recent terrorist killing of a British soldier, and they’re only the latest tweeters to be punished because some tweets, in England, are against the law.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>In
2012, 653 Brits faced criminal charges because they crossed the line in one way or another while using social media.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; ">The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees free speech. Espionage, obscenity, and fighting words are not protected, along with certain kinds of commercial speech. You can’t conspire
with the enemy, shout fire in a crowded theater, lie about a product you are selling, or broadcast obscenity or profanity over the airwaves during hours when children might be in the audience. Other than that, anyone can say just about anything online or off,
and the law will look the other way.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; ">But England has no free-speech guarantees. The English<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127">Communications Act</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>makes
it illegal for the 6.6 million active tweeters in the U.K, to tweet anything grossly offensive, obscene, or menacing. But it’s also against British law to send any electronic communication “for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
to another.” In England, it is illegal to send an inconvenient tweet.</p>
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