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"Imagine your entire family is booked to fly on a TwitAir flight tomorrow. Tonight, a tweet appears on Twitter’s public timeline threatening that flight. Because of Chambers, Sky News is monitoring Twitter for things like this and reports the threat. But, because the tweet is littered with exclamation marks and couched in cartoonish terms, many think it’s a joke and the authorities don’t bother to investigate. The police tell Sky they’re going to let it slide because it’s “obviously a joke”. Would you let your children, spouse and parents get on that plane tomorrow? Would you really…?" As you quoted above, Sedley LJ says that context is everything. So, if the threat were obviously exaggerated bravado about blowing up an airport next week unless the weather improved, then yes.

26-Nov-2010

9:41 am