This has been in the British news today- a man was jailed for 56 days for making racist tweets about footballer Fabrice Muamba (while Muamba was critically ill in hospital, no less).
Some people say this infringes on the right to freedom of speech, and some people have said the sentence is too harsh- in addition to the prison time, this guy (Liam Stacey- half the country knows his name now) has been thrown out of university and banned from his rugby club, not to mention that everyone now knows who he is and what he's done.
But…yeah…I'm sort of weirdly pleased. He posted those tweets knowing perfectly well they would anger and threaten a particular group- now he gets to experience what he wanted his victims to feel. And he's obviously been made an example of, but…I would like it, if using racist language to hurt people was explicitly banned, if it was responded to harshly. Maybe we could get this idiot off the internet, for a start.