>As part of its investigation into the removal of the track, the oversight board filed multiple freedom of information requests with the Met police, finding that the force had filed 286 requests to take down or review posts about drill music in the 12 months from June 2021, and that 255 of those had resulted in the removal of content.
>Over the same period, it had not made a single request to remove any other music genre, the force said. “This intensive focus on one music genre among many that include reference to violence raises serious concerns of potential over-policing of certain communities,” the board argued.
…or maybe other music genres aren’t used as proxies for gang threats/gangs bragging about their kills?
Sending death threats via lyrics on a drill video is still sending death threats. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand
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>As part of its investigation into the removal of the track, the oversight board filed multiple freedom of information requests with the Met police, finding that the force had filed 286 requests to take down or review posts about drill music in the 12 months from June 2021, and that 255 of those had resulted in the removal of content.
>Over the same period, it had not made a single request to remove any other music genre, the force said. “This intensive focus on one music genre among many that include reference to violence raises serious concerns of potential over-policing of certain communities,” the board argued.
…or maybe other music genres aren’t used as proxies for gang threats/gangs bragging about their kills?
Sending death threats via lyrics on a drill video is still sending death threats. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand