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    Joey Barton guilty over ‘offensive’ X posts

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    1. ForwardReflection980 on

      As much as I think the guy is a tool, it does seem incredibly selective when it comes to who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t.

    3. Verbal_v2 on

      Get stabbed in the face and have your case closed by text 48 hours later, call someone a bike nonce on social and get hauled before the crown court.

    4. Mundane-Watch-4195 on

      He’s a fucking dick but no chance he should be criminally punished for that.

      That’s why defamation lawsuits exist, and why he’s already had to pay Vine £75k.

      The police and the justice system have better things to do.

    6. Tartan_Samurai on

      Cue the reactionary howling in rage and despair that you can’t publicy call people pedophiles and be immune to consequences for doing so…

    7. Lunarfrog2 on

      Suppose they can make space for him in prison, for the grave offense if being a cunt online, by accidentally releasing a few peados

      What a ridiculous country we are

    8. Jamie54 on

      > “They are disgusting Nazi fascists … We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all,” he said, running a finger across his throat.

      Labour councillor Ricky Jones

      > A British councillor was on Friday acquitted

      Compared to

      > Barton, 43, compared Aluko and Ward to the serial killer couple Fred and Rose West, and called Vine a “bike nonce”

      > Former footballer Joey Barton has been found guilty of six counts of sending “grossly offensive” social media posts

    9. Spamgrenade on

      Wow, a lot of people here would be fine if someone was publishing material on a regular basis claiming they were a child abuser. Personally I would want that shit shut down ASAP, especially if I was a well known public figure.

    11. Seagull_Trawler on

      It’s technically malicious communication in the eyes of the law. Consistently painting someone as a nonce, while having a following and platform to do so, is criminal in our country. Soft foul, but still a foul.

    12. Nuthetes on

      He’s a 40+ year old millionaire trying to troll people on Twitter like a 12 year old incel on 4Chan.

      What a sad, pathetic excuse for a man.

      Like, log off twitter and enjoy your millions rather than trying to seek the validation of middle-aged ex-EDL members, you great top hat.

    13. Atreyes on

      Absolutely crazy this gets a guilty verdict when Ricky Jones was found innocent after calling for peoples throats to be cut, country has gone mad.

    14. talesofcrouchandegg on

      He didn’t just call him a ‘bike nonce’, did he. He went further, talking about schools and so on. Claiming you’re just referring to cycling stops making sense in that context and sounds like a genuine accusation – why else would you say it if not to try to associate someone with sex offenders? Walking back from it once you’re caught out is a cowardly Motte and Bailey tactic. Schrodinger’s prick.

      Second, I wonder how many who have a problem with this agree with the statement ‘false accusers of rape should serve the same sentence as the person they accused’. I agree that false accusations ruin lives, and that’s exactly why he shouldn’t get away with it.

    15. parkway_parkway on

      Defending free speech is like sewer repair.

      Firstly it’s always disgusting and you have to defend a lot of pretty horrible things you don’t agree with.

      Secondly you might want to ignore it, but things get shitty really fast when the sewers stop working.

    16. Quick-Exit-5601 on

      Glad we got our affairs in order and we successfully stopped a dude with three previous weapons offenses from going into a train and stabbing 10 people, so now we can focus on *real* crimes.

      XD

    17. ShufflingToGlory on

      I don’t care about people being offensive. Being offensive shouldn’t be against the law.

      I do care about people endangering someone else’s safety and livelihood by baselessly accusing them of being a paedophile.

    18. ArcticAlmond on

      I’m so glad we live in a country where people are getting sent down for tweets but the policy can’t even be arsed to turn up for shopping, bike thefts, etc.

    19. GhostRiders on

      Can’t they also find Vine guilty of being a massive twat?

      Jesus Vine is going to dine out this, he is already an unsufferable twat

    20. fitzgoldy on

      The guys a dickhead but what an absolute joke and waste of money that this stuff goes to court.

    21. Underscore_Blues on

      Calling people a ‘bike nonce’ is now a criminal offence lmao. What is this world we live in?

    22. TalkDirty2MyIVR on

      Crown court for calling someone a ‘bike nonce’ lmao this country is an embarrassment

    23. ash_ninetyone on

      > Barton was cleared of writing that Ward and Aluko were the “Fred and Rose West of football commentary” after an FA Cup tie in January 2024 between Crystal Palace and Everton.

      Fair. He’s an idiot. But saying that, while some may find offensive, shouldn’t be considered an offence to hurl an insult. That’s an opinion. I disagree with him. But that’s an opinion.

      There’s separate laws for harassment.

      > But the former Fleetwood and Bristol Rovers manager was convicted of a count relating to another post in which he superimposed their faces onto a photograph of the serial killers.

      I didn’t know that was a crime though. That kinda seems to overstep the mark. Certainly on taste. But I’m also not sure if or how it is a crime on that. Malicious communications?

      > He was also convicted over posts suggesting Vine had visited “Epstein island” – a reference to the paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein – and one saying: “If you see this fella by a primary school call 999.”

      That is libel, and in addition to calling him a bike nonse (and then claming it was never intended to be serious) kinda contradicts everything else said.

      Defamation is based on weather a statement is truthful, is it published and targetting someone, and has caused harm (usually reputational). There’s a defence of if you can prove it to be an opinion, but opinion is saying something like “I think he’s an idiot” not “he’s definitely a paedo”

      Given how damaging it can be to be labelled a nonce, especially if innocent, that’s fair.

      It isn’t the first time Jeremy Vine has had to deal with defamation either. Alex Belfield was jailed for doing the same which led to constant harassment. Consequently Vine labelled Belfield the “Jimmy Savile of trolling” which is along the lines of the same thing that Barton was cleared of.

      Defamation on the otherhand carries harm.