UK Director of Public Prosecutions defines criminal posts

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Submission + - UK Director of Public Prosecutions defines criminal posts (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

Submitted by Kupfernigk on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @08:08AM

Kupfernigk writes: Following some high profile cases in which the Crown Prosecution Services initiated prosecutions for offensive tweets or posts that resulted in convictions quashed on appeal, the DPP has issued guidelines on what are criminal, and what are merely offensive or annoying, posts.

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