Online communications that cause severe distress to be illegal.
Serious distress is when a person is so distressed that it effects their daily life.
I am going to ask for my performance review to be on zoom this year. If they fire me that will definitely distress me and effect my daily life. I can’t lose!
People get sent to prison in this country for making jokes, we’ve had a free speech problem long before this legislation was dreamt up.
Free speech is an illusionary concept that dknst exist and has never existed, there has always be a class in society that has the mic and class’s that have been denied the mic.
When Conservatives complain about lack of free speech there really just complaining that they don’t hold the mic anymore.
These laws are deliberately vague so ANYBODY can be prosecuted for what they say online.
Luckily it is normally conservative views that are prosecuted in the UK so this will largely backfire on the tories…
Can’t wait for this and the “on the extremist list for vilifying britain” piece of police state craftiness.
Thing is the bill is so unworkable that it is likely to collapse under its own weight just look at the last age verification law that was delayed over and over again until it was quietly scraped.
The UK has a bad record at setting this stuff up.
These kind of bills want to make the country more like Russia!
Awful!
Tor is your friend.
Free speech is the cry of the underdog, it’s the voice of the oppressed calling out their oppressors. Those with power don’t need to champion free speech because their privilege puts them above needing it. The dispossessed only have their voice and they should have the right to use that voice and be as loud as possible because that’s the only way they can be heard and if they have been heard then they can be helped.
It’s vague on purpose, it’s only use will be arresting political opponents and protest organizers. I’m not planning to live in the UK for much longer, but your kids will certainly not be free in any way. One day they will have enough of something and try to organize, their movement will be smashed down before it can even fully form.
You are sleepwalking into Dystopia and doing nothing about it.
The British Computer Society sent a survey about this. Wonder if they have published any results?
What is the extent of the long arm of British law? Is it only if the perp posts the comments from British mainland that they can go to the clink? Or is it any British subject anywhere in the world? Or is it any person from anywhere as soon as they pass through a British airport in transit to anywhere they could be collared. Does anybody have the legal definition?
Guess who the biggest advocates of this bill are ?
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Fuck this government, but don’t look to the us. The us is a virus.
Yeah that’s the point.
We desperately need *some* online regulation. See: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Online communications that cause severe distress to be illegal.
Serious distress is when a person is so distressed that it effects their daily life.
I am going to ask for my performance review to be on zoom this year. If they fire me that will definitely distress me and effect my daily life. I can’t lose!
People get sent to prison in this country for making jokes, we’ve had a free speech problem long before this legislation was dreamt up.
Free speech is an illusionary concept that dknst exist and has never existed, there has always be a class in society that has the mic and class’s that have been denied the mic.
When Conservatives complain about lack of free speech there really just complaining that they don’t hold the mic anymore.
These laws are deliberately vague so ANYBODY can be prosecuted for what they say online.
Luckily it is normally conservative views that are prosecuted in the UK so this will largely backfire on the tories…
Can’t wait for this and the “on the extremist list for vilifying britain” piece of police state craftiness.
Thing is the bill is so unworkable that it is likely to collapse under its own weight just look at the last age verification law that was delayed over and over again until it was quietly scraped.
The UK has a bad record at setting this stuff up.
These kind of bills want to make the country more like Russia!
Awful!
Tor is your friend.
Free speech is the cry of the underdog, it’s the voice of the oppressed calling out their oppressors. Those with power don’t need to champion free speech because their privilege puts them above needing it. The dispossessed only have their voice and they should have the right to use that voice and be as loud as possible because that’s the only way they can be heard and if they have been heard then they can be helped.
It’s vague on purpose, it’s only use will be arresting political opponents and protest organizers. I’m not planning to live in the UK for much longer, but your kids will certainly not be free in any way. One day they will have enough of something and try to organize, their movement will be smashed down before it can even fully form.
You are sleepwalking into Dystopia and doing nothing about it.
The British Computer Society sent a survey about this. Wonder if they have published any results?
What is the extent of the long arm of British law? Is it only if the perp posts the comments from British mainland that they can go to the clink? Or is it any British subject anywhere in the world? Or is it any person from anywhere as soon as they pass through a British airport in transit to anywhere they could be collared. Does anybody have the legal definition?
Guess who the biggest advocates of this bill are ?