Ah see, had you underlined and bolded my sentence I would have gotten the relation, however I thought you were mocking me. But yeah my bad.

No worries. I get offended all the time :P

You should be jailed for offending poor superchunk.

Sorry yes I realise that, only the "wrong" bit was in response to your comment, not in a smartass "wrong!!!!" tone. Just clarifying. :)

edit - fully agree with you. It's a shame laws like this will be abused as a blanket for prosecuting many the law wasn't even targetted at. I suppose in this case he has been made an example of and to be honest in this particular case looking long term it's kinda a good thing imo. It does make you think though being on the internet and all and getting prosecuted for something you say on it sits quite uneasy with me.

Take internet forums the world over, on another forum today I was asked to put tartar sauce up my arse and fuck a fish (!!!!) all for the reason of disagreeing with someone. This would never happen in real life and that person would never act as such in real life. Which comes to the point of should someone be judged on their actions on the internet in the same was as real life, or should we learn that our actions have consequences?

I suppose with the oncoming threat of world terrorism maybe we do need harsh laws to govern the internet. It doesn't really invade ones free speech like recent draconian piracy legislation does and maybe a sharp warning to deter people from being pricks could be a great thing.

...Might make internet forums become almost like talking in real life and promote intellectual well thought out discussion...

Or i could be dreaming and living in a deluded bubble.

Sorry to jump in, but I don't think it would be possible for me to be offended if someone said that to me, I'd be laughing my head off.

Seems excessive... especially since if you jailed all the racists in relation to football there would be well... a LOT.

Wasn't there a french politician a while back who was complaining because most of the french team was black?

What is wrong with that?  If society wants equal representation for a lot of jobs, student demographics at universities, etc.. then why not in sports.  That would allow a lot more professional sports job openings for whites (except hockey).

Along with this case, there was an episode where a group of muslim girls attacked and brutally beat up a white girl waiting for the bus, they kept kicking and punching her when she was on the gorund and screamed; "kill the white slag!"
They appeared before a judge but were released since the judge ruled that they were muslim and unaccustomed to drinking alcohol.

Sometimes, even Norway seems normal in comparison to other nations.

OP: I read about this case, his tweets were childish and offensive and completely uncalled for but jail for almost two months? That's excessive, to say the least.

Doesn't sound that offensive depends what kind of word he used in french for 'black'..

Curious what this guy said though and i guess they made an example of him and that is something I can't disagree with.  

Sounds fair to me, the guy was an idiot. He got jailed for "inciting racial hatred" and considerring he made the comments in the most public forum you possibly can, the punishment fits imo. If someone stood in the middle of the street and shouted the comments he made, they most definately would be jailed. Just because it's Twitter/online does not excuse idiocy.