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Comment by thdhhghgbhy

9 days ago

The new online safety rules are already being used to shut down government criticism. How it works is their new elite protection squad, if someone is deigned an influential critic of government policy, trawls through your social media posts until they find something against the laws. A lot of government critique is coming from the working class here now, who have virtually no political representation in the UK. As you can imagine, some of these social media posters don't mince their words, and end up getting caught out and arrested.

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ChrisKnott  9 days ago

Do you have any examples of people being arrested for criticising a law?

Most of the time these dystopian descriptions of the UK turn out to be completely overblown nonsense when you look into them properly.

  • dkdbejwi383  9 days ago

    Yup, along the same lines as the “sharia no go zones” and “get stabbed six ways to Sunday every time you go outside” myths

  • b800h  9 days ago

    I suppose the most recent example are the people from Palestine Action being arrested en masse at protests.

    • Lio  8 days ago

      They're not really being arrested for criticising a law though.

      They're arrested for supporting a group that's been banned for causing around £30 million's worth of damage to our national defences at a time of hightened national security.

      There's the implication that Palastinian Action are going to continue attacking us.

      If they just stuck to protesting they would have been fine.

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  • rubyAce  8 days ago

    There are discussions in parliament about grooming gangs on X. These are soft-censored (you can't see it without passing the the age verification). Few people will be bothered to make an account to see a post and pass age verification. Therefore it slows the sharing of information.

    It isn't about outright banning the discussion, because that will cause considerable push-back by the public. So you dress up a policy as doing one thing knowing that the effect will be another. I don't take anything the British State says at face value. If you do, you are simply being naive.

    • alt227  7 days ago

      But we are only in the first week of the bill passing. After say 6 months or a year, most people who want to see things on those platforms will have done the age verification, and therefore there will be no "soft censoring" or slow down of information.

      This seems like a non issues isolated to the initial period of being introduced.

  • Devilspawn6666  9 days ago

    Look up the videos "blackbeltbarrister" on YouTube. He's doing a good job of explaining the law as it is and how it's really being applied in the UK.