Good news, but I think a career change might be in order.

Football doesn't even matter now, what matters is he is alive. He can do everything else he wants if he is alive

i'm glad he's answering questions in english and french. that's the news i was waiting for, no significant brain damage because being technically alive isn't everything, you want to be aware and be able to enjoy your loved ones and no laid up practically brain dead and absent from your family life.

Jamie Sanderson ‏ @YoungGunsBlog
Sky say Thierry Henry has flown to London all the way from America to spend an hour with former team-mate Muamba. Top man.

Ricky1985 wrote:

Jamie Sanderson ‏ @YoungGunsBlog
Sky say Thierry Henry has flown to London all the way from America to spend an hour with former team-mate Muamba. Top man.

class!

Not only is he an idiot, but he's got a girl's name too. Mug. 😆

So Stacey broke down as he was led away in handcuffs - wonder if he was genuinely sorry and ashamed of what he did or whether he was just feeling snivellingly sorry for himself.

Completely ridiculous to jail someone for that. English system is so fucked up. Who gives a toss what he said on twitter? Unbelievably petty.

It's not really a simple question with a simple answer IMO.

After all, if a racist moron tweets in the woods, does society care? And if it's therefore dependent on whether he has an audience, can he control it?

Seems to me the more power and influence you know you have, the more culpable you are for being a publicly racist shitbird.

I think we can all agree young Stacey's a tosser though.

personally, i find it kinda scary that the UK govt can jail you for saying something deemed racist online. thought police are out in full force.

it's one thing (a good thing) to make sure there's no discrimination in hiring practices, academic admissions or commerce, it's another thing entirely to make it illegal to have personal, racist beliefs.

It's pretty terrifying...makes me realize that I really don't want to move back to ol'Blighty no matter how much I sometimes think I do.

Coombs wrote:

It's pretty terrifying...makes me realize that I really don't want to move back to ol'Blighty no matter how much I sometimes think I do.

Where are you from exactly and where do you live now?

Coombs wrote:

It's pretty terrifying...makes me realize that I really don't want to move back to ol'Blighty no matter how much I sometimes think I do.

Right, because they're running around jailing everyone who says a couple of words out of line. Oh wait.

The way I see it even if it bothers you, it's a blip in the prevailing standard of law enforcement and the kid's out in two months. No need for a society wide moral panic.

Not sure, on one hand Stacey deserves whatever is coming to him and there are plenty of his type directing their racist comments to real people via the medium of twitter. I don't see why they shouldn't be reported.

But then you have incidents like this one where a man loses his job and faces criminal charges for an innocuous remark.

Sure, and that's an overreaction.

But the loss of his job is presumably a matter between him and his employer, not the supposed "PC gone mad" state. People have been sacked for even less in terms of internet communication.

As far as getting arrested is concerned, just imagine if there was an airport bombing, those tweets had been there, and nothing had been done by the police. That's the risk management angle. That doesn't even have anything to do with regulating free speech, the charges he faces are just the consequences used to justify the action taken on another account.

The Communications Act 2003 seems to be a rather wide-ranging and ridiculous curtailment of public expression, I'll grant you that.

Coombs wrote:

Completely ridiculous to jail someone for that. English system is so fucked up. Who gives a toss what he said on twitter? Unbelievably petty.

Yeah it's unbelievable that nowadays you can't even laugh at a young black man who nearly died and incite racial hatred without breaking the law.

kamikaze wrote:

personally, i find it kinda scary that the UK govt can jail you for saying something deemed racist online. thought police are out in full force.

it's one thing (a good thing) to make sure there's no discrimination in hiring practices, academic admissions or commerce, it's another thing entirely to make it illegal to have personal, racist beliefs.

Ah but he didn't keep his personal racist beliefs to himself, he shared them with the whole world, therefore it was not a "thought crime" it was a real one.