Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list
by DanBC on Friday October 17, 2014 @04:47PM
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Do you have any examples of people "locked up for racist remarks" or "offensive speech"?
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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list
by Karunamon on Friday October 17, 2014 @06:25PM
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Here's a couple from 2012:
http://deadspin.com/5896709/racist-tweets-about-fabrice-muam...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/21/man-racial...
Here's 11 people who got locked up last year:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330809/Lee-Rigby-de... (daily fail, but their info appears sound)
And that was just on the first page of google. Note that in all of these cases, the comments were just ugly and racist, but not threatening.