The Law and how it is broken

[icowden]

We've had discussions in the past about the "injustice" of being sent to prison for tweets.

Here's an excellent explainer as to why Lucy Connolly is doing 2.5 years for a tweet.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/...6/understanding-the-sentence-of-lucy-connolly

 

[matticus]

If you say your name is Lucy - in a tweet - you can be sent to prison.

These days.

 

[Ian H]

The saying ‘while sticks and stones may break my bones, words can never hurt me’ is first recorded only in 1862, but the contrary sentiment, ‘the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones,’ is found in the Book of Ecclesiastes.


Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech: which is the right of every man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or control the right of another. And this is the only check which it ought to suffer, the only bounds it ought to know. ["Cato"]