after heading the slave uprising against romans inspiring several communist regimes in europe and latin america spartacus one of the most famous gladiators in history is now leading the twitterati in their global protest campaign against what has been perceived as the law enforcers overzealous approach to aviation securityin the last two days iamspartacus has turned into the most tweeted line as thousands of protesters rallied behind paul chambers a ukbased accountant whose tweet joke about blowing up a lousy airport landed him in trouble as it found no humour with uks law enforcers chambers original tweet read robin hood airport is closed youve got a week and a bit to get your together otherwise im blowing the airport sky high unlike paul the octopus paul the accountant could not foresee or calculate what was to come a local court found the tweet menacing in its content and he was arrested convicted and fined 3000 the arrest cost him his job but it earned him the support of fellow twitter users who have since been retweeting the menacing tweet in an i am spartacus in the film spartacus that line is used by gladiators to show support to the protagonist protest campaignif you thought only the english law was humourless and that in india doing a chambers would not get one arrested then you are wrong a threat is a threat irrespective of the context it is made in says sanjay pandey ips officer and an esecurity expert lauding the action taken by the uk court indias information technology amendment act of 2008 section 66 a says any person who sends by means of computer resource or a communication device any information that is grossly offensive or has a menacing character shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years with a fine pandey like the uk judge felt that the tweet was menacing and so the arrest welldeserved the only difference is that in india the arrest would happen only if some one informs the police about such a post tweet etc the possibility of picking such a message electronically in real time is remote says pandeyformer international civil aviation organisation icao security auditor p mohanan agrees we do not take any threat lightly he says suppose a bomb goes off or something the security agencies would be hauled up for not taking note of the said tweet chambers would have faced far more harsher trial and punishment though it was all just a matter of coincidence he says