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Man arrested and charged in Scotland over tweet

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The tweet said: "The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn."

Seems pretty innocuous compared to the stuff we normally see online. Hardly worth government intervention. Interested to see where this goes regardless.

If even 0.1% of the twa... I mean tweet that celebrated Tatcher’s death would result in jail time we’ll need a new Australia.

Dailymail coverage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237235/Man-35-char...

It's a strange day when the Daily Mail has better information in its article than the BBC.

On the one hand, it's annoying that they leave out the most seek-after detail of the article, one that everyone who reads the article wants to know about.

On the other hand, the BBC has been in hot water in the past when they reported people's speeches/posts/etc., as is, since many people consider it insensitive, causing emotional harm, etc.

This article has no info on the tweet or what was said can we get a better source?

He was advocating for the death of British servicemen.

Wasn't subtle either. Straight up "the only good X is a dead X" statement.

It sounds like celebrating, not advocating.

That's a very different thing.

It's not clear to me what you mean. Celebrating seems like a subset of advocating in most cases, including this one.

Advocating: X occurrence is good.

Celebrating: X occurrence happened, and that's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU

So... What did the Tweet say?

"The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn."

I can only assume there are hundreds of Scottish tweets a day calling for someone's death unless Scottish Twitter is substantially better than in other country's. Why was this one singled out?

Because someone in a position of power was bored.

How many years old was this lad, like 9?

Adult people shouldn't behave like a toddler and government should overreact by a tantrum. Is embarrassing for both parts.

35, it's in the article.

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