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Re:Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post by dEnigma on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:12PM (#16887117)
On one hand the lyrics (as quoted in the link posted by another commenter [1]) are clearly in bad taste, and I don't see how they are supposed to pay tribute to a boy killed in a road accident. On the other hand I don't understand how any of this warrants a fine and curfew. Sure, if the platform this was posted on doesn't agree with the language they can give a warning or even block the account, but why did the justice system have to get involved at all?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16886795

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Re:Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post by giarc on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:39PM (#16886795)
A bit more detail here including the lyrics. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/woman-wh...
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Re:Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post by Psilidae on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:20PM (#16887729)
I like were this is going. When do we start burning books and arresting people who speak something that isn't in the list of Good Words?
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Re:Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post by itsmemattchung on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:38PM (#16886789)
What a joke.

Imagine the (UK) government fining every person who wrote something "offensive" online.

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