Insult someone on Twitter or Facebook? A crime in Grenada

Honestly, that free speech thing can be tiresome. People end up endlessly expressing themselves and, every second of the day, someone’s going to get hurt. Online, that is.It’s too easy to take out your iPhone and type “you liberal pig Euro a***ole,” or some other type of spontaneous flattery.The island of Grenada has decided that it has had enough. Its lawmakers wish to designate the country a decorous online enclave in the midst of the vile, open-mouthed free-for-all that is the Web. So they have passed a law that makes it a criminal offense to insult someone online. As the Associated…

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