Woman Jailed Over Facebook Comment

Paula Asher, a woman from Kentucky, was apparently driving under the influence and hit another car. She wrote about it on facebook, saying "My dumb bass got a DUI and I hit a car…LOL".

The existence of such on outrageous comment offended the judge so much that Paula was told to delete her entire facebook account. Paula didn't take this order seriously, and the judge actually found her in contempt of court over this, jailing her for two days.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/09/lol-facebook-post-after-dui-accident-lands-woman-in-jail/

This girl sounds kinda stupid, but I'm amazed at the powertrip this judge is on. This is a very clearly an abridgment of free speech. And even if we were going to go over some kind of justification against "hate speech", this wouldn't qualify.

I'm more amazed at the comments defending the decision. WTF "americathepitiful", the first amendment is not there just to defend criticism of the government. It's there most importantly for that reason, but that doesn't make it the only defended speech.