Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet

Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by krick on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:00PM (#30157701)

What I find the most remarkable about this thing is that if you dismiss the spelling and the overall style of it, it is kind of valid political statement that some people could totally relate to. Which is to prove once more, that modern Britain or USA or whatever else is essentially no different from the demonized images of "totalitarian Russia" or Third Reich, NK... — pick your favorite. And it's pretty much always been like that, sometimes a bit colder, sometimes a bit hotter.

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Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by mlyle on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:19PM (#30157822)

> that modern Britain or USA or whatever else is essentially no different from the demonized images of "totalitarian Russia" or Third Reich, NK..

Uh, there's a matter of degree.

In the US, that'd be protected political speech. The most one could expect is scorn.

The UK may have a lesser speech protection than the US, but still a much broader set of political speech is allowed than in Russia or NK.

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Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by perryizgr8 on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:55PM (#30158779)

> there's a matter of degree.

The degree gap is usually quick to be bridged, via this common anti-fallacy called "slippery slope". Give it a few more years.

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Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by mlyle on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:11AM (#30158870)

> The degree gap is usually quick to be bridged, via this common anti-fallacy called "slippery slope". Give it a few more years.

That's kinda a silly argument, given that free speech rights have generally increased in the UK in the last few decades.

Slippery slopes are good to be aware of, and hope to avoid. They aren't inevitable. Things don't progress constantly towards the worst possible state.

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Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by moron4hire on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:44PM (#30158003)

I imagine the spelling is an affectation of a Scottish accent.

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Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by scarby2 on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:12PM (#30158176)

It's written in Scots which is considered both a dialect and as a separate language (though there's not really a difference)

https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/deid (also deed) https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/auld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

Just the accent would be covered by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_English

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Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet by LAC-Tech on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:36PM (#30158332)

I feel like that's more Scottish English than genuine Scots, but not an expert.

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