Football Fan Banned From Grounds, Sentenced To Community Service For Racist Tweets

Yet another Twitter legal first has come out of the UK this week. A football (or soccer) fan has been banned from his favorite team’s football ground and sentenced to community service for tweets he made that were racist in nature.

More legal precedence is coming out of the UK in terms of Twitter than anywhere else.

As Wales Online reports, Luke O’Donoughoe, a 23-year-old man from Norwich was charged with sending an offensive message by public communication under the Communications Act 2003.

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