Police probe yet another twitter racial comment.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ch-Twitter-abuse.html

Recently a student Liam Stacey, was jailed for 56 days for abusing the Bolton player Fabrice Muamba.

Also last month another student was ordered to carry out 240 hours unpaid work,for abusing football pundit Stan Collymore.

Now we have this latest alleged racial abuse of Newcastle United's defender James Perch on Twitter.

Why can't these idiots who post on twitter get it into their heads that this type of crime will see the full force of the law rain down upon them?

Surely our stretched police force have enough serious crime to deal with, without having to use valuable police resources, chasing the perpetrators of this type of crime?

[daffy654]

Some people seem to think they can post what they like online without any come-back whatsoever.

[andy-hughes]

The sort of person who holds these neandertal racist views is not likely to be someone who ever considers that their actions have consequences - or indeed to think very much about anything at all.

Mass comunication is a wonderful thing, but like all wonderful things, it has its downside - in the case of Twitter, it means that any numpty with computer access can bore the world with non-entity garbage ranging from a minute-by-minute diary, to this kind of illegal and offesnsive pap.

I am sure the police soak it up like they do drink-drivers, apres-pub punchers, mobile phone dirvers and the rest of the dross that they have to deal with.

[jno]

Twitter's quite new. I don't think people have yet realised that it is subject to the usual laws (possibly because it is international in scope). I imagine the penny will drop in the next year or two. After that they will start looking for hacks and loopholes in hopes they won't be caught.

[Gromit]

I do not know if this is a problem or not.

We only hear about these cases when they involve a celebrity. Do they happen all the time?

Or whether whether they only investigate abuse at celebrities, and if it was an ordinary person who complained about racial abuse on Twitter, would the police get involved at all?

[shooty]

Easy convictions. They have it in black and white.

[bazwillrun]

"neandertal racist views"

you know for a fact these people were racist or is it just a cheap over dramatisation for hand wringing effect

if it was the other way round "I want to punch in his cracker head" we wouldnt even be reading about it.

quite pathetic really

[jno]

how could anyone possibly think that someone saying 'I want to punch perch in his n****r head!' is a racist? Shame on you, andy!

[andy-hughes]

Sorry jno, I don't know what came over me, I will have a serious think about what I post in advance before posting anything ever again.

I don't know where I would be without you!

[andy-hughes]

bazwillrun - call me an old cynic, but yup, I think the use of the word 'n*gg*er' does point roughly in the direction of a racist neanderthal, but I am always open to pursuasion if you have an argument to advance on the subject.

[sp1814]

bazwillrun

What's your definition of a racist comment. I'd be fascinated to hear where you draw the line.

Also - cracker? You're kidding right?

[trt]

I agree with Gromit, it only seems to be in the news if its a Celeb!

[FredPuli43]

It is likely that these are in the news simply because they involve celebrities. Any criminal activity or none is deemed newsworthy if it involves a celebrity, as a glance at the Mail online will confirm.
But it may also be that the mindset of the offenders is such that they will send offensive messages about celebrities precisely because that will get the maximum response.
And, being cynical, the police are under greater pressure to act when it's a celebrity; more people are aware of it, more will complain; and prosecuting in such a high profile case may be 'labour saving', because the publicity and the resulting sentences may deter others from doing it and reduce the number of instances of it.

[bazwillrun]

no I'm not kidding , you should get out more