Weekly news lesson 301: 16th August 2012: Twitter joker wins high court appeal against conviction
Paul Chambers was found guilty of posting a menacing message on the social networking site Twitter after his ‘joke’ about blowing up an airport was taken seriously. His conviction has since been quashed, prompting questions of whether the case should ever have been brought to trial.
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