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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the Chilling-Effects dept.

As reported in The Guardian, and on the blogger's own site, British writer Michael Abberton tweeted a link to a fake and/or satirical advertisement for the right wing UKIP party.

Not too long after he was "visited by two Cambridgeshire police officers on Saturday. He was told he had not committed any crimes, but was asked to delete some of his tweets, particularly a retweet of a faked poster giving 10 reasons to vote for Ukip, such as scrapping paid maternity leave and raising income tax for the poorest 88% of Britons."

All of this is strange enough on it's own, but be sure to check the comment stream on his blog, where any number of Anons claim that he made up the entire story, despite the police having already confirmed it!

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by lhsi on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:58PM

    by lhsi (711) on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:58PM (#42754) Journal

    The police have issues a response to this here (I'll quote it as it is a short statement): http://www.cambs-police.co.uk/news/newsitem.asp?Ne wsID=8191 [cambs-police.co.uk]

    12/05/2014 13:23:53

    Chief Constable Simon Parr said: "I believe in this instance police attendance was not required and I have asked for our approach to this sort of incident to be reviewed to ensure we do not get involved unless there is clear evidence that an offence may have been committed."

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