If people got locked up for inciting violence, Twitter/X would be a dead space for all the people who hate Jews at the moment because its trendy
Half the racists in my family are genuinely shit people who think they’re victims.
They’re not victims.
They’re shit
Sometimes the truth hurts
It’s wild how every argument online can be boiled down to this template.
The thousands of pro Palestine protesters locked up were inciting violence now?
They were protesting a Western backed genocide 100% peacefully but this too much for the former human rights barrister PM.
Apart from Ricky Jones
This is exactly that. It’s awful how people don’t seem to understand that if you say awful things you get punished
These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English.
“she didn’t incite violence!”
She encouraged people to set fire to buildings
A lot of the time when they are like “they got locked up for peacefully protesting. They did nothing wrong” they actually are talking about the people who were setting hotels on fire after blocking exits and looting the Greggs and Lush stores…
Jokes are enough to get people arrested as England doesn’t have free speech
I had a London taxi driver tell me the other day that he’d heard you can “get arrested for saying you’re British now”. Absolutely unhinged.
When did this come in?
What is inciting violence? Is it specific threats to a person or group? Or opinions that cause offense?
Right wing logic is that calling for asylum seekers and hotel staff to be burned alive is just ‘hurry words’ but calling for Farage to be killed is bad.
Both are bad.
Getting arrested for being a patriot and stating valid things sucks doesn’t it
Pete North was arrested in the middle of the night for reposting an anti Islam/Palestine/Hamas meme btw. No incitement to violence. I’m not endorsing the message, but you’re just not correct.
A Canadian told me that a British man was arrested for complaining to his kid’s school board. I said I hadn’t heard about this case.
Some subsequently googling suggests the reality was similar to the meme.
The online safety act also makes it a criminal offence to causing annoyance or needless anxiety to someone, or to tell lies.
The “incitement of violence” charge is very open to wide interpretation as Count Dankula can attest.
The list goes on.
Don’t make this a right vs left issue- we should all be horrified that this can happen, not pretending that it doesn’t happen.
More peeps in-lock up for tweets than Russia!
Bob Vylan wasn’t arrested though?
But it’s free speech not hate speech!!!!! /s
Didn’t someone get arrested recently standing near an abortion clinic and silently praying? What crime is that exactly?
I dont think teaching a pug to nazi salute is inciting any violence
Or for wearing shirts saying “plasticine Action” on em
Yet Ricky Jones was cleared after calling for people to “slit their throats”?
Why does the former Labour councillor get a pass for inciting violence?
A man got arrested for posting “fuck Hamas” in Facebook. Hamas is a designated terrorist organisation in the UK.
The law that is controversial is not incitement to violence but incitement to racial hatred. It’s too vague and is often used to stifle legitimate debate.
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If people got locked up for inciting violence, Twitter/X would be a dead space for all the people who hate Jews at the moment because its trendy
Half the racists in my family are genuinely shit people who think they’re victims.
They’re not victims.
They’re shit
Sometimes the truth hurts
It’s wild how every argument online can be boiled down to this template.
The thousands of pro Palestine protesters locked up were inciting violence now?
They were protesting a Western backed genocide 100% peacefully but this too much for the former human rights barrister PM.
Apart from Ricky Jones
This is exactly that. It’s awful how people don’t seem to understand that if you say awful things you get punished
These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English.
“she didn’t incite violence!”
She encouraged people to set fire to buildings
A lot of the time when they are like “they got locked up for peacefully protesting. They did nothing wrong” they actually are talking about the people who were setting hotels on fire after blocking exits and looting the Greggs and Lush stores…
Jokes are enough to get people arrested as England doesn’t have free speech
I had a London taxi driver tell me the other day that he’d heard you can “get arrested for saying you’re British now”. Absolutely unhinged.
When did this come in?
What is inciting violence? Is it specific threats to a person or group? Or opinions that cause offense?
Right wing logic is that calling for asylum seekers and hotel staff to be burned alive is just ‘hurry words’ but calling for Farage to be killed is bad.
Both are bad.
Getting arrested for being a patriot and stating valid things sucks doesn’t it
Pete North was arrested in the middle of the night for reposting an anti Islam/Palestine/Hamas meme btw. No incitement to violence. I’m not endorsing the message, but you’re just not correct.
A Canadian told me that a British man was arrested for complaining to his kid’s school board. I said I hadn’t heard about this case.
Some subsequently googling suggests the reality was similar to the meme.
I mean this is trivially easy to debunk.
Joey Barton convicted for “grossly offensive” tweets, not for inciting violence
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykwlkewr7o.amp
Met police officers jailed for offensive post in a private WhatsApp group, not inciting violence
https://www.cps.gov.uk/london-south/news/ex-metropolitan-police-officers-sentenced-after-sending-racist-messages
Man jailed for jokes about missing children, not inciting violence
https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/british-man-sentenced-to-12-weeks-in-jail-as-result-of-facebook-posts
The online safety act also makes it a criminal offence to causing annoyance or needless anxiety to someone, or to tell lies.
The “incitement of violence” charge is very open to wide interpretation as Count Dankula can attest.
The list goes on.
Don’t make this a right vs left issue- we should all be horrified that this can happen, not pretending that it doesn’t happen.
More peeps in-lock up for tweets than Russia!
Bob Vylan wasn’t arrested though?
But it’s free speech not hate speech!!!!! /s
Didn’t someone get arrested recently standing near an abortion clinic and silently praying? What crime is that exactly?
I dont think teaching a pug to nazi salute is inciting any violence
Or for wearing shirts saying “plasticine Action” on em
Yet Ricky Jones was cleared after calling for people to “slit their throats”?
Why does the former Labour councillor get a pass for inciting violence?
A man got arrested for posting “fuck Hamas” in Facebook. Hamas is a designated terrorist organisation in the UK.
The law that is controversial is not incitement to violence but incitement to racial hatred. It’s too vague and is often used to stifle legitimate debate.
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