Cartoon Trouble

by Monitor
MediaWatchWatch
April 27, 2010

https://www.legal-project.org/697/cartoon-trouble

Excerpt:

Looks like we missed a lot while our server was down over the past few days.

The most significant piece of news, which you no doubt already know about, is that we now have confirmation that it is illegal in the UK to offend religious people. Should you be foolish enough to leave a cartoon in a public place and a religious person claims that the cartoon causes them "alarm and distress", you could end up like Harry Taylor with a 6 month suspended sentence, £250 costs, 100 hours of community service, and an ASBO banning you from carrying potentially offensive materials in public (no more Private Eye or Viz for you).

A jury of Christians found him guilty, and the judge passed sentence with these words:

Not only have you shown no remorse for what you did, but even now you continue to maintain that you have done nothing wrong and say that whenever you feel like it you intend to do the same thing again in the future.

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