UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

Post by benj111 » Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 3:34 PM UTC

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Really? You can disagree with the position, whilst accepting that MPs have been murdered, and MPs do get threatened online. What specific level of power hunger makes a threat to life acceptable? Further, I wasn't in favour of these proposals, but if you have people on HN of all places thinking its acceptable to threaten people, maybe we do need this law.

Threatening people online was already illegal.

Post by hgomersall » Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 3:43 PM UTC

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The country doesn't need high earners per se, it needs people that contribute effectively. There are plenty of "high earners" that are parasites, contributing little and extracting much. It all makes much more sense once you realise that governments spend before they tax and so what really matters is real resources.

Assuming the country wants to import goods and services, then they are going to need to be able to sell goods and services. The desirability of the goods and services the country is selling can be roughly indicated by the population's purchasing power. If more and more people are earning less, then that is not a good sign for the desirability of the country's goods and services.

Post by opwieurposiu » Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 3:53 PM UTC

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> As I understand things, MPs who are on Twitter regularly get anonymous threats of rape, murder etc https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63330885 - credible threats, with two MPs murdered in the last decade. 1. Aren’t such threats already covered by existing laws? 2. They weren’t murdered on Twitter, so I fail to see how the Online Safety Act would have helped prevent this.

> 1. Aren’t such threats already covered by existing laws? The Online Safety Act isn't about making these things illegal. It's about making it more difficult to do the illegal things in the first place. To take an analogy: money laundering legislation exists to make it harder to use the proceeds of organised crime in legitimate life. Being a drug dealer is already illegal, yet we don't use that as an argument against…

Post by thih9 » Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

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About banning ads for “certain types of porridge”: > …the majority of porridge, muesli and granola products will not be affected by the advertising restrictions but some less healthy versions (with added sugar, chocolate, syrup) could be affected. > Sometimes products may be marketed as, or perceived by consumers to be, healthy but in fact contain surprisingly high levels of saturated fat, salt or sugar. Source: http…

I was in Tesco, buying a orange juce The standard version was 100% orange pressed The "healthy" low cal version was 50% orange 50% water and sweetener addictives Same brand/price The British Heart Foundation also recommends cola zero as healthier than 100% juice

Post by NoImmatureAdHom » Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

    In the first case of a person going to jail for posting on social media during the disorder, Jordan Parlour, 28, of Seacroft, Leeds, received a 20 month sentence for inciting others to target a Leeds building which housed asylum seekers
    At least two others also received jail sentences for social media posts that stirred up racial hatred 

    Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones appeared in court charged with encouraging violent disorder after he was filmed apparently telling a crowd that far-right demonstrators should have their throats cut
    6000 officers with specialist training in public order are "prepared and ready" to deal with any potential unrest over the weekend
    About 600 people have been arrested this week with hundreds more expected in the coming days and weeks, police say, with the use of facial recognition technology fast tracking the process "[2]