Student sentenced for "joke" in UK

[StormRaiser]

Re: Student sentenced for “joke” in UK

@Midnight_express_91

i agree that she should have held her tongue. But on the other hand, its political correctness gone mad. People have to walk on egg shells and be very very careful in what they say for fear of it being misconstrued or misinterpreted by “authorities” or the more recently the language police. In a way its killing freedom of speech because what you have now is people afraid to voice opinions cuz it may be labelled as a hate crime which is the easy option and people are i suppose over using it as a way to accuse people who have an opinion whether its good or bad. Im not referring to this incident - like i said it was incredibly short sighted of her given what the situation is these days. But im referring to the more minor incidents where people are arrested simply for stating a like or dislike of a certain politician or public figure. It has happened

I am not sure which incidents you are referring to. I think things are much more tolerant and easier than in other countries. Here in India we had an incident wherein we had 2 girls arrested for tweeting about the road blocks due to the death of a certain leader. I understand that you would start generalizing that these kind of incidents happen only in India, but it would certainly help if you look around the other countries as well.

Criticism for the sake of criticism is bad and people need to be thankful for the kind of tolerance that majority of the citizens observed after this brazen attack.