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Do They Plan To Drag British Citizens Into A Draconian Censorship Regime, Or Are These Measures Long Overdue?
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Depends on who is judging the content, some people were happy when Tommy Robinson's Facebook and Instagram accounts were deleted for extreme content but a lot of people didn't see a problem with what he posted.
There are types of criminal and extreme content that pretty much everyone agrees should be censored but once the control methods are put in place then the risk is that they are employed to censor what some people may call 'free speech' and the things that fall into that category will change depending on the views of the person judging it.
There are types of criminal and extreme content that pretty much everyone agrees should be censored but once the control methods are put in place then the risk is that they are employed to censor what some people may call 'free speech' and the things that fall into that category will change depending on the views of the person judging it.
With the greatest respect Danny, no they're not (by and large obviously, there have been notable exceptions). Whilst initial contact could potentially be made via Facebook, anyone would take anything very sinister to the dark web very quickly.
The government will seek to use our quite legitimate fears about paedophiles and terrorists to erode our personal freedoms, when very little in the line of preventing those things will be accomplished, all that will be is that we will be more closely monitored and what we see easier to control- that extends to everything once this sort of legislation is passed, including personal, social and political disagreement and dissent, and I'm so sorry but that's too important a thing to be given away so easily.
The government will seek to use our quite legitimate fears about paedophiles and terrorists to erode our personal freedoms, when very little in the line of preventing those things will be accomplished, all that will be is that we will be more closely monitored and what we see easier to control- that extends to everything once this sort of legislation is passed, including personal, social and political disagreement and dissent, and I'm so sorry but that's too important a thing to be given away so easily.
'Certain subjects'- they routinely remove illegal subject matter anyway, but clearly it's a massive task to remove all of it instantly, and they don't post it- individuals do. Those individuals won't stop being paedophiles or terrorists just because our government censor social media, they will just venture deeper underground to where they generally hang out anyway, where the government can't censor them. This won't affect the bad guys, this will affect we normal people who will be spoon fed what we may and may not be allowed to read about.
This is nothing but propaganda tbh, so that the government have an easier time eroding our rights, and I'm flabberghasted you can't see that.
This is nothing but propaganda tbh, so that the government have an easier time eroding our rights, and I'm flabberghasted you can't see that.
Calico, on another thread you’ve written ‘Anything can be expressed or debated as long as appropriate language is used and the discussion is not designed to stir up hatred‘
How does your rather idealistic view of freedom of speech fit with a website which is designed to stir up hatred? You would seem to have a dichotomy.
How does your rather idealistic view of freedom of speech fit with a website which is designed to stir up hatred? You would seem to have a dichotomy.
Who decides what it unacceptable and who watches the watchers?
I tend to think it is the dark web that needs a light shining on it. Those are the places people hide behind when they know what they are doing is wrong.
Free speech is a right but with that right comes responsibility and we should be prepared to deal with those not taking responsibility.
I tend to think it is the dark web that needs a light shining on it. Those are the places people hide behind when they know what they are doing is wrong.
Free speech is a right but with that right comes responsibility and we should be prepared to deal with those not taking responsibility.
"Thought crime" is now officially incorporated in our legal system by the classification of certain offences as "hate crime". And our law enforcement institutions (both police and judiciary) have enthusiastically embraced this subjective concept and are already exercising their new powers as "Thought Police" with some zeal.
I, for one, do not want to see those powers extended even further.
Remember, such legal powers with their elastic judical formulations could just as easily be used to suppress valid criticism and dissent as to suppress the "harmful" content which is their ostensible aim. You can see the temptation to even the most benign government to misuse them, can you not?
And, of course, while we may think suppressing material which we ourselves find offensive is a public good, we might, one day, find ourselves with a government which decides that it's our opinions which are hateful and dangerous and need to be suppressed.
"Late you come, but yet still you come.".
I, for one, do not want to see those powers extended even further.
Remember, such legal powers with their elastic judical formulations could just as easily be used to suppress valid criticism and dissent as to suppress the "harmful" content which is their ostensible aim. You can see the temptation to even the most benign government to misuse them, can you not?
And, of course, while we may think suppressing material which we ourselves find offensive is a public good, we might, one day, find ourselves with a government which decides that it's our opinions which are hateful and dangerous and need to be suppressed.
"Late you come, but yet still you come.".
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