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"The South Yorkshire man who was recently convicted for joking about bombing an airport on Twitter is now just one of many who have done the exact same thing. \nPaul Chambers's original tweet, \u201CRobin Hood airport is closed. You\u2019ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I\u2019m blowing the airport sky high!!\u201D was meant as a joke, but Judge Jacqueline Davis saw things differently. She thought the tweet was \"menacing in its content,\" dismissing Chambers's appeal to the original sentence, a \u00A31,000 fine. \nFurthermore, Chambers has been ordered to pay an additional \u00A32,000 to cover the legal bills, and lost his job as a financial manager as a consequence of his arrest. \nNow, thousands of Twitter users are expressing support for Chambers, repeating his tweet together with a hashtag #IAmSpartacus, a reference to the film Spartacus, in which fellow gladiators express solidarity with Spartacus by uttering the phrase, \"I am Spartacus.\"\nThe hashtag is now a global trending topic on Twitter, and Chambers's tweet has been repeated by thousands of users. \n\n\n\n\nThe incident raises several important questions. Was Paul Chambers really breaking the law when he joked about \"blowing the airport\" on Twitter? Subsequently, are all the Twitter users who have repeated the message breaking the law, too? Please, share your opinion in the comments.\nImage courtesy of Universal Pictures\n[via The Guardian]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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