Someone has I think been sentenced to jail for making comments about the tragic missing girl April and I think we should be more concerned about this than we appear to be.No matter how obscene the comments may have been short of advocating and promoting abuse of children - people must be allowed free speech and not risk being carted off to jail for offending sensibilites or just being downright obnoxious and offensive.As I say I do not know the details of this case but it does appear to signal a dangerous trend of late of intolerance by the powers that be of people expressing unpleasant views.
The danger is that with all the justified heightened sense of outrage and despair over this tragic missing girl people will be reluctant to defend someone who makes offensive comments relating to it.This will be all the authorities require to smuggle in a law that will inevitably end up encompassing the expression of any unpopular views and set a dangerous precedent of intolerance of the free expression of opinions and beliefs.
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