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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
suspicion of malicious communications? WTF does that mean? They arrest you and you go to court to have judge determine if your speech was illegal? Damn, you Brits really are subjects.
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they are oldish laws.
law 1 applies to an old law that was introduced to stop people insulting phone operators years ago when you had to phone an operator to be put through to somone. they (police) are now applying this to twitter/facebook. thus if you insult somone its a crime. i belive thats what they have arrested him on.
law 2 is the act that stops people transmitting offence of some kind (i forget what). it was for tv and radio stations to stop them transmitting certain stuff. but they now use this on the net.
if it had been a death threat then he would have been arrested under somthing else.
but as i say i suspect the cps will not bring charges.