Cappuccino
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The examples you quoted were all to do with British subjects.
The rest of us are allowed to say what we like.
Tell that to the man currently serving 11 years in a federal prison for making online threats to the creators of South Park after they depicted the Prophet Mohammed in one of their cartoons. I repeat - internet posts are not above the law of ANY country, including yours.
Besides, two of the cases I mentioned above involved not only prosecution of UK citizens, but also mass removal of posts from US and other foreign nationals from facebook, You Tube and twitter at the request of the UK attorney general. That's how it works - you want access to a British audience, try not to threaten the lives of British people, or poison the jury pool so badly its impossible to try somebody. That's not too much to ask, it it? Your print and television media have preserved those protocols for years when reporting on UK criminal cases, why do you think it should be different on the internet?