Things like this are yet more evidence that erosion of freedoms by accessing our phone and Internet records are useless, even though there's no information on the specifics of how they gathered this information. Blocking things like encryption, something that may very well happen in the future, will probably just lead to even more hits and even more delays to the review process like what happened with this guy.
Not necessarily, you only notice the ones that don't get caught.
Britan is the lamest police state ever. They'll arrest a pile of people a day over bad words and set up the world's largest and most absurd survelence network in the world, but can't stop actual bad people from doing actually bad things. Great job.
At least we might finally get Hashem Abedi, the fuckhead brother and partner of the bomber. I don't care what we use to bring these pieces of dirt to justice. It has affected me and alot of others
Libya says Manchester bomber's brother will be extradited this y..
oh well in that case putting people in jail for tweets is fine then. Carry on.
It's almost like scarce acts of terror enable right-wingers (who have remained in power for the majority of recent history) to push their surveillance and control agendas easier.
Our police and internal intel services have a habit of missing things now and then, whether it be due to genuine incompetence, corruption and bribery, or severe underfunding shit just isn't caught in time.
All of which certainly helps push the narrative that the country is falling apart and we need to tighten up our CCTV coverage and provide backdoors in encryption algorithms. Not only do the Tories get to say they've cut our deficit (by not spending money we should be!), they also get to push the paranoid fear of the Other!
Police arresting nine people a day in fight against web trolls |..
Five internet trolls a day convicted in UK as figures show ten
Five a day are convicted apparently, and 155 last year were jailed. And if dankula, the airport tweet guy and that rap lyric girl are anything to go by, that "high threshold" of prosecution is something that'd make the Cheka blush.
Oh jesus a whopping 155 in a year. Whatever shall we do.
It seems a fair few of these cases are local courts applying the Malicious Communications Act super liberally, an Act that has been in our legal system for some time now and was only really extended to cover social media a few years back. The High Court will likely overrule most cases of simple trolling should the sentence be appealed. As they did in one of the landmark cases, your airport tweet guy (Paul Chambers -v- Director of Public Prosecutions)
It's not like every single arrest in these is complete bullshit, there appear to be a number that are largely predicated on harassment first and foremost. Consistent, purposeful attacks on an individual over social media is treated similarly to a face to face interaction because it's a incredibly similar thing. Actions designed to make the victim dread every waking moment of their life socially. Dankula is a shitty example, his initial problem was pretty bullshit, but the way he took it and what he's been up to since then kinda fly in the face of "lmao it was just banter tho :~~~)", both that and the rap thing are based on precedent from previous convictions related to the open display of "hate crime" content.
The media blowing up the cases of this being applied somewhat loosely, even if they are then overturned by the High Court is just sensationalised bullshit. Is there room for improvement in how the law is enforced on the local court level? Yeah, that's true. Is it a nightmare dystopia over here where everybody is on a knifes edge about every public interaction for fear of arrest, all while the rape gangs and terrorist get away? Of fucking course not, there are different divisions of our police forces that focus on different things for a reason.
One case of criminal conviction over causing subjective offense is one too many. Short of incitement to unacceptable action (violence, criminal acts etc) speech, thought and opinion is free, action is not. That is absolute.
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