So the Police choose what laws they enforce according to their own agenda, and with PartyGate back over Xmas, the Scottish Police decided to arrest/prosecute someone who tweeted Nicola Sturgeon's residence address as a Scottish Hogmanay party was arrested under the malicious communications act because Nicola Sturgeon's residential address declared for political reasons is actually a relative's of her's.
Anyway the Politicians with the help of the media are engaged in malicious communications all the time, never seen the Police enforce that act on the political class, suggesting the Police are bias and interfering in politics like we have just seen with Labour's Keir Starmer and Beergate.
On the point of this proposal, I think it will kill off elements of the British Humour... or not!
This is actually a good tactic if you want to crash and burn a bill. Put in an amendment that people have to be naked everywhere for security reasons or similar stuff.
Would of course be awesome if Facebook mods would assign scores to users and government would collect that data to determine pension and health care service quality. No real patriot could be against this.
more I think about it, it would actually be a great idea. Same goes for journalists. Or actually maybe there is a way to score folks who have amplified voices, perhaps there could be some levelling
If you look at the proposal, it clearly says this would only apply to (de facto) broadcasters, not to ordinary people; look at the sentence mentioning OFCOM.
One of the central planks of this bill is to make OFCOM the regulator of all websites (and messaging services) that serve content to British citizens, including demanding that any site with user generated content verifies the age of viewers and scans everything and anything for CSAM (and apparently truthiness, for Tory values of "truth")
As for age - it's already there, you can't serve underage content to minors. As for "truthiness" - I'd say this part makes a lot of sense, given the current pandemic of fake news.
The point of Brexit was to let bad politicians off the hook for their terrible policies and give them a way to escape further attention and eventual prosecution.
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The could be using that as a secret wedge, but if we're lying about this on the internet then that only gives support to their misdirection.
> whose content is viewed more widely than a minimum threshold to be defined and set by OFCOM.
Given the recent history of UK online regulation [2], I think it's save to assume the "minimum threshold" will be extremely low.
[1] https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/onlinesafety_rm_rep_0708.pdf [2] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...
https://www.ladbible.com/news/man-arrested-for-organising-st...
Anyway the Politicians with the help of the media are engaged in malicious communications all the time, never seen the Police enforce that act on the political class, suggesting the Police are bias and interfering in politics like we have just seen with Labour's Keir Starmer and Beergate.
On the point of this proposal, I think it will kill off elements of the British Humour... or not!
Would of course be awesome if Facebook mods would assign scores to users and government would collect that data to determine pension and health care service quality. No real patriot could be against this.
As for age - it's already there, you can't serve underage content to minors. As for "truthiness" - I'd say this part makes a lot of sense, given the current pandemic of fake news.