Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’
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#2Dystopia is here
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#3Oh boy well this is another nail in the coffin for free speech in the UK.
Back in my day it was just a given people said mean things on the internet.
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#4So does this mean if you participate in a twitter mob while in the UK you could be sent to jail? The way the law it written it sounds pretty board - an errant like or retweet (which is not necessarily any endorsement) could land you in hot water.
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#5Archive link of article:
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#6subjectivity is loved by the powerful
rule of subjectivity is, at the end of the day, rule of the powerful: when two parties disagree and the situation can be defined in primarily subjective terms, the most powerful party wins
by hiding behind outcast, oppressed or unpopular groups with often legitimate (though perhaps subjective, to an extent) grievances, the powerful are able to push through the subjective zeitgeist, which is then used to their advantage
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#7Actual article instead of twitter > article
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5cdadf7c-3a85-11ec-9bef-a...
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#8It feels like this is at least one destination under harm prevention rhetoric. I'm all for holding mobs accountable, but I don't think this is the thing. If you are on social media doing bullying or participating in mobs while calling it activism, what you need isn't jail time it's help. I suspect a lot of these folks are just lonely.
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#9I call BS. We already have about 100 times more laws than we have the capacity to prosecute so it's just noise. We already have laws about malicious communications but yet social media is still swimming with incredibly malicious content.
Insulate Britain had a number of injunctions taken against them to not block main roads and when they do, they get arrested - 1 of them saying they had been arrested 11 times. Now regardless of whether you agree with them or not, the enforcement of these headline grabbers is terrible.
Once we have enough police enforcing things consistently and as strictly as necessary then I will worry about a dystopia, until then, it's just more attempts to win votes and is just noise.
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#10The UK is quickly becoming an authoritarian country. RIP freedom and democracy.