❗️The British government is cracking down on people who share social media posts about the U.K. riots.
The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson, warned against "publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred. So, if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you're committing that offense."
He added further, "We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth."
"So it's very, very serious. People might think they're not doing anything harmful. They are. And the consequences will be visited upon them," Parkinson said.
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The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson, warned against "publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred. So, if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you're committing that offense."
He added further, "We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth."
"So it's very, very serious. People might think they're not doing anything harmful. They are. And the consequences will be visited upon them," Parkinson said.
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#Protestors not keen on #Police #Facial #Recognition Camera Vehicles force them to quickly drive off.
#Protestors not keen on #Police #Facial #Recognition Camera Vehicles force them to quickly drive off.
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🇬🇧 Free Speech is Under Siege in Starmer's UK
The UK is currently experiencing a massive attack on free speech, spearheaded by new Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is encouraging police to use the full force of controversial British laws to crack down on social media posts.
The push for more online censorship has spanned many years, and different governments in the UK have gained new momentum with the recent protests and riots
These developments suggest an alarming escalation in government and law enforcement involvement in regulating online speech, which traditionally enjoys broad protections under democratic norms.
The use of existing laws, such as the Public Order Act 1986, to arrest individuals for their online speech is deeply troubling to civil liberties groups.
While maintaining public order is a legitimate concern of the state, the broad application of these laws and combining accusations of “stirring racial hatred” with instances of alleged “misinformation” is supercharging an attack on free speech.
The introduction of the UK’s most recent censorship law, the “Online Safety Act” further complicates this, with supporters of censorship like Kyle, suggesting that the already-controversial act doesn’t go far enough.
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The UK is currently experiencing a massive attack on free speech, spearheaded by new Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is encouraging police to use the full force of controversial British laws to crack down on social media posts.
The push for more online censorship has spanned many years, and different governments in the UK have gained new momentum with the recent protests and riots
These developments suggest an alarming escalation in government and law enforcement involvement in regulating online speech, which traditionally enjoys broad protections under democratic norms.
The use of existing laws, such as the Public Order Act 1986, to arrest individuals for their online speech is deeply troubling to civil liberties groups.
While maintaining public order is a legitimate concern of the state, the broad application of these laws and combining accusations of “stirring racial hatred” with instances of alleged “misinformation” is supercharging an attack on free speech.
The introduction of the UK’s most recent censorship law, the “Online Safety Act” further complicates this, with supporters of censorship like Kyle, suggesting that the already-controversial act doesn’t go far enough.
#UK #BigBrother #Ksteimer
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Free Speech is Under Siege in Starmer's UK
As the UK tightens online speech laws, critics warn of a growing threat to free expression and democratic oversight.
🇬🇧 Tech giants will be forced to ban fake news under Labour plans | The Telegraph
Tech companies will be forced to ban fake news from their platforms under plans being considered by the Government in the wake of the riots.
Sir Keir Starmer suggested on Friday that the Government would review social media laws as part of efforts to prevent further disorder.
The Telegraph understands that ministers are looking at introducing a duty on social media companies to restrict “legal but harmful” content.
It could mean that firms are required to remove or suppress posts spreading fake news about asylum seekers or other topics such as self-harm, even if they do not meet the threshold for illegality.
However, critics have said the proposals expose “the sinister and authoritarian side” of Sir Keir’s Labour Party, driving “a coach and horses” through the principle of free speech.
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Tech companies will be forced to ban fake news from their platforms under plans being considered by the Government in the wake of the riots.
Sir Keir Starmer suggested on Friday that the Government would review social media laws as part of efforts to prevent further disorder.
The Telegraph understands that ministers are looking at introducing a duty on social media companies to restrict “legal but harmful” content.
It could mean that firms are required to remove or suppress posts spreading fake news about asylum seekers or other topics such as self-harm, even if they do not meet the threshold for illegality.
However, critics have said the proposals expose “the sinister and authoritarian side” of Sir Keir’s Labour Party, driving “a coach and horses” through the principle of free speech.
#BigBrother #UK #Censorship
🇬🇧 Britain's "hate speech" laws are incredibly tyrannical.
It seems you can be jailed merely for insulting somebody if any person (not just victim or state) "perceives" you to be motivated by "hostility" (toward a protected class) which is defined by the state as "unfriendliness" (among other things).
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It seems you can be jailed merely for insulting somebody if any person (not just victim or state) "perceives" you to be motivated by "hostility" (toward a protected class) which is defined by the state as "unfriendliness" (among other things).
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🇵🇸 The World Court has ended the Oslo ruse - Kraig Morkhiber for Mondoweiss
The ICJ’s ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to situate Israel outside the reach of the law.
Israel is on trial for genocide in the International Court of Justice (the #ICJ). The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (#ICC) has requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders for crimes against humanity. Millions of people across the globe, Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Christians, students, workers, and others, are mobilized to challenge Israeli settler-colonialism, #apartheid, and #genocide. The 76-year-old wall of impunity, built brick-by-brick by the #US, the #UK, and other Western governments, is beginning to crumble.
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#Palestine #OsloAccords
The ICJ’s ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to situate Israel outside the reach of the law.
Israel is on trial for genocide in the International Court of Justice (the #ICJ). The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (#ICC) has requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders for crimes against humanity. Millions of people across the globe, Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Christians, students, workers, and others, are mobilized to challenge Israeli settler-colonialism, #apartheid, and #genocide. The 76-year-old wall of impunity, built brick-by-brick by the #US, the #UK, and other Western governments, is beginning to crumble.
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#Palestine #OsloAccords
Anger grows within Labour over role of ex-Israeli military intelligence official | Middle East Eye
Senior UK Labour Party figures have reacted with anger and dismay to the organisation's decision to recruit an Israeli former military intelligence officer as one of its social media managers.
Assaf Kaplan, who served with the Israeli army's signals intelligence and surveillance agency known as Unit 8200, was recruited last year to work in the office of the party leader, Keir Starmer.
While Unit 8200 is the counterpart of civilian-run agencies in the West such as the National Security Agency in the US and the UK's GCHQ, it has faced fierce criticism for its role in maintaining close surveillance of the Palestinian civilian population.
#UK #Ksteimer #Unit8200
Senior UK Labour Party figures have reacted with anger and dismay to the organisation's decision to recruit an Israeli former military intelligence officer as one of its social media managers.
Assaf Kaplan, who served with the Israeli army's signals intelligence and surveillance agency known as Unit 8200, was recruited last year to work in the office of the party leader, Keir Starmer.
While Unit 8200 is the counterpart of civilian-run agencies in the West such as the National Security Agency in the US and the UK's GCHQ, it has faced fierce criticism for its role in maintaining close surveillance of the Palestinian civilian population.
#UK #Ksteimer #Unit8200
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🇬🇧 First they came for Bernadette...
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/13/keir-starmer-free-speech-bernadette-spofforth-mccarthyism/
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Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/13/keir-starmer-free-speech-bernadette-spofforth-mccarthyism/
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