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.
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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