Submission + - Police in Britain arrest man for joke on Twitter (forth.ie)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17, 2010 @08:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: A British man arrested under anti-terrorism legislation for making a bomb joke on Twitter. Paul Chambers, 26, was arrested under the provisions of the Terrorism Act (2006) –his crime? Frustrated at grounded flights over inclement weather, he made a joke bomb threat on the social networking site Twitter.

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