chaos caused by the offensively anti-Islam US film -- not strictly social media, but analogous), they are now scrambling for a strategy to handle what could be a potentially vast new legal minefield. The strategy so far -- if there is one -- seems to be to "make an example" of one or two high-profile and heavily mediatised cases, if only to remind everyone that there should be limits to the "say anything" culture. It's almost social engineering rather than law: the government has the thankless task of trying to remind a new and heedless generation about basic courtesy! In the anonymous, instant and impersonal world of cyber-space, all the social graces which have evolved over millennia of face-to-face human interaction seem to have gone out of the window. The good news is that everybody seems to agree the old laws may not necessarily be appropriate in cyber-world, and we begin the process of grinding towards some new ones. Technology has changed society -- and now the law has to catch up. If a few more think twice before hitting that "send" button, this can only be a good thing. I find the magistrate who handed out this sentence, and the comments he used in doing-so, offensive. Who do I see about having him arrested and jailed? Or do I need to get together a lynch mob and threaten his life before action is taken against him? There are three problems here. First, the sentence is wholly disproportionate given the