Re:European police in coordinated raids against online hate ...
by crtasm on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:13PM
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Well if we're quoting how about including this part:
> Fining Meechan £800, the sheriff told him: "The centrepiece of your video consists of you repeating the phrase 'Gas the Jews' over and over again as a command to a dog which then reacts.
>Mark Meechan, 30, recorded his girlfriend's pug, Buddha, responding to statements such as "Sieg Heil" by raising its paw.
>The clip was viewed more than three million times on YouTube.
>Meechan, of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, was sentenced at Airdrie Sheriff Court after being found guilty of committing a hate crime last month.
>He had denied any wrong-doing and insisted he made the video, which was posted in April 2016, to annoy his girlfriend.
>But Sheriff Derek O'Carroll found him guilty of a charge under the Communications Act that he posted a video on social media and YouTube which was grossly offensive because it was "anti-Semitic and racist in nature" and was aggravated by religious prejudice.
Cases like these are an absolute waste of the police and prosecutor's time, in my American opinion.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43864133