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codpoo commented on Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door   web.archive.org/web/20220... · Posted by u/ColinWright
valdiorn · 3 years ago
Wow, someone has not been keeping up with the news coming out of the UK. Lots and lots of people been arrested and charged for saying, not actually hate speech, just "mean things" on Twitter. Usually it's just obvious jokes, perhaps of bad taste, that someone decided to take literally and then claim they felt "harassed and intimidated" (the magic phrase which causes the police to investigate).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10668005/Man-avoids...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43864133

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/john-scriven-pla...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066477/Veteran-ar... - literally arrested for a tweet that "caused anxiety".

If you want more, check out count dankula's (mark meechan) second YouTube channel, he covers pretty much all these high profile "offensive tweet" cases. Most of them are ridiculous.

codpoo · 3 years ago
The police harrassment of Caroline Farrow for expressing opinions on Twitter is another example of a heavy-handed authoritarian injustice.

u/codpoo

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