UK jails another for saying offensive things on the internet

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Is this the name of the crime?
Is their a difference between saying something on the street and writing it on the internet?

[danny]

Here's another one I feel a bit uneasy about.  Stupid and offensive, yes, but 8 months in jail?

4 months of that was for breaching of a suspended sentence for cannabis possession.

Ah much better, only 4 months for the "offensive behavior" then.

It's actually an 8 month sentence for the offensive behavior; the other 4 month charge is concurrent.

While the sentence is a bit harsh, I'm pretty sure something like this would be prosecuted similarly in the United States. I'd argue wearing and publicly displaying a shirt that reads "One Less Pig, Perfect Justice" and "Kill A Cop For Fun," immediately after two local cops were killed in the line of duty, would quite obviously be "fighting words" which aren't Constitutionally protected. Under Georgia law it'd count as "disorderly conduct" which carries a maximum sentence of a year in county jail.

He didn't call for murder, how often does this need to be repeated?

"Kill A Cop For Fun" can certainly be seen as calling for murder.