Freedom of speech - bad taste banter or criminal scum

[duhawkz]

Soccerball fan sacked, facing jail and possible ban from footy for mocking a dead kid

https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/02/dale-houghton-fan-pleads-guilty-to-mocking-bradley-lowerys-death-19590316/

Personally I think its a bit of shitty thing to do, but that seems a bit of an over reaction.

I think I'd rather have the police dealing with real crime rather than dealing with hurt feels.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Yeah, he should have been ejected from the stadium (and if he fell down a couple of steps on the way I wouldn’t worry), his picture published, and barred. Jail is too much though. You’d think aged 31 he’d have more understanding.

[stinkwheel]

I suppose a lot depends on what his intention was. I suspect in this case, it was intended to incite violence. Even in America who have some of the most liberal freedom of speach laws out there, that's where your 1st ammendment protection stops. As the Trumpster is finding out.
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[Ste]

[Easy-X]

[rpsmith79]

Sorry, but he got everything he deserved

Would you want a self confessed coked up football hooligan working for you, any self respecting company would have sacked him on the spot

Ok, jail may be too much, but i suspect it will be for a matter of days if anything

But this just enforces the sterotype of everything i hate about football supporters, hooliganism/yobbish behaviour passed off as simple 'banter'

He knew what he was doing was going beyond simple banter
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[Easy-X]

The essential problem with football banter is it's specifically meant to unsettle the opposition - at the core "by fair means or foul." Which is why gentlemen watch rugby or cricket
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[Raffles]

[Easy-X]

Australia doesn't count but I'll give you the other one
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[MCN]

Biker doing 100mph. Hurts no one's feelings. Jailed.

Football fan being a drugged up heartless cant?

Jail the bastirt.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Ste]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Easy-X]

Yeah, I thought it was one of those typical "corporate lawyers gone mad" till I saw the poster.
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