ANALYSIS

A British man was arrested for a tweet. What was his crime? He posted a meme on social media with a curse word criticizing Hamas and Islam.

The arresting officer informed the man, a blogger named Pete North, "Basically, section 19 refers to spreading what we say like racial hatred. So you've posted something online that we believe is spreading racial hatred."

"Twitter, Facebook?" the blogger wondered aloud.

"Well, I can't explain too much. It's just to give you the context beforehand," the officer said.

"What, you're taking me away now?"

"Yes, so you're under arrest..."

"In the middle of the night, over a tweet?"

"I am, unfortunately..."

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