Joke about blowing something up on Twitter, get arrested

telegraph.co.uk

6 points·whyleym··10 comments

Unfortunately in this day and age terrorism is very, very real. It is most definitely not a joking matter. Yes, it might seem to be overkill. However, overkill is much better than thousands dying because the joke was actually real.

That's a slippery, slippery slope.

You are right. Freedom of speech is hard to gauge in matters like this, really, really hard. (when is the "line" crossed, and what is the line?)

Is terrorism really any better or worse that any other time since world war two?

Possibly not the threat. In my limited experience (I'm a late teen) the reality of attacks are much more real. WTC Bombing. Oklahoma City. 9/11. Those all happened in my lifetime.

So you are saying that most terrorism acts you remember happened in your lifetime.

Could it be that you simply remember those which happened in your lifetime better than those that happened before?

Like I said, I have limited experience. I'm not aware of a cluster of terrorist attacks like that ever before. Correct me if I'm wrong.

As a FWIW note, Wikipedia has 3 incidents between 1800-1899, 9 for 1900-1969, and markedly more after that (around 30-40, I didn't count). The world has changed. And/Or, reporting has changed. I'd go with the former.

All of those happened in the US. This incident was in the UK and unless I'm mistaken the UK had a crapload of IRA bombings in the 80s and early 90s. It seems the UK is much, much calmer now.

Yes. It is. I meant worldwide terrorism is the issue.

It's worse now, because it's affecting Americans. </sarcasm>

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