• repeating a post which incited racial hatred

    From John@megane.06@gmail.com to uk.legal.moderated on Mon Jan 12 13:33:33 2026
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    On another forum I posted the following

    "Of course if someone was posting, for example [I then repeated in full
    Lucy Connolly's infamous post] and is then charged with incitement to
    racial hatred, then in my opinion it goes well beyond criticism of the Govt..."

    A fellow forumite has said that by repeating LC's post I have skated perilously close to the legal edge, have I? Obviously that wasn't my intention.

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  • From Jon Ribbens@jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu to uk.legal.moderated on Mon Jan 12 13:41:37 2026
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    On 2026-01-12, John <megane.06@gmail.com> wrote:
    On another forum I posted the following

    "Of course if someone was posting, for example [I then repeated in full
    Lucy Connolly's infamous post] and is then charged with incitement to
    racial hatred, then in my opinion it goes well beyond criticism of the Govt..."

    A fellow forumite has said that by repeating LC's post I have skated perilously close to the legal edge, have I? Obviously that wasn't my intention.

    I don't think so, no. It is the meaning of the message that can be
    potentially illegal rather than the words themselves, and the message
    conveyed is completely different when they are quoted as an example
    rather than used as the post itself.

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  • From Roger Hayter@roger@hayter.org to uk.legal.moderated on Mon Jan 12 13:52:06 2026
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    On 12 Jan 2026 at 13:41:37 GMT, "Jon Ribbens" <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> wrote:

    On 2026-01-12, John <megane.06@gmail.com> wrote:
    On another forum I posted the following

    "Of course if someone was posting, for example [I then repeated in full
    Lucy Connolly's infamous post] and is then charged with incitement to
    racial hatred, then in my opinion it goes well beyond criticism of the
    Govt..."

    A fellow forumite has said that by repeating LC's post I have skated
    perilously close to the legal edge, have I? Obviously that wasn't my
    intention.

    I don't think so, no. It is the meaning of the message that can be potentially illegal rather than the words themselves, and the message conveyed is completely different when they are quoted as an example
    rather than used as the post itself.

    That, of course, is a valid defence to an incitement charge; but less
    effective if the quotation is defamatory to someone.
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    Roger Hayter

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