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Ya that's unnacceptable. But there are other examples where there is no incitment and people getting jailtime, which is fucked. This video is misleading in that sense.
Ya that's unnacceptable. But there are other examples where there is no incitment and people getting jailtime, which is fucked. This video is misleading in that sense.
Yes, I get it, and the sentence should reflect whether it actually precipitated any actual harm or violence, but if I go into the street and start chanting "burn this building fuck these people burn this building..."etc. I can and should be arrested even if no one gives a shit I'm saying that.
Yes, I get it, and the sentence should reflect whether it actually precipitated any actual harm or violence, but if I go into the street and start chanting "burn this building fuck these people burn this building..."etc. I can and should be arrested even if no one gives a shit I'm saying that.
No but it was a literal incitement to violence which is its own crime, separate from the conduct of the crime. I donโ€™t know if it would be prosecuted in the states but its different than the quotations from the video which was much less.
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05er 3 months ago
Complete lunacy
Exactly. Remember during COVID when the Americans drove trucks to the nation's capital and it required the military to break up the protest? Every other country caved to the pressure, but 'merica was totally free from that tyranny, the majority of people didn't fold like sheep and give up their "freedom". image
Agreed. At minimum hate speech laws are troubling because of the question: who gets to decide what constitutes hate speech? It's also tied with this ridiculous notion that words can equal violence. Ultimately, once one equates words with violence it's very easy to justify actual violence in response to words.
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SatsAndSports 3 months ago
From the Reuters article: > โ€œEvery man and their dog should be smashing fuck out Britannia Hotel,โ€ the judge quotes one of Parlourโ€™s posts from early August as saying. > Responding to another user who said, โ€œIโ€™m down if you are ladโ€, the judge quoted Parlour as writing: โ€œstart about 5 bell tonight be my boy but it's all graveyโ€. At some point, even the most ardent free speech advocate will draw the line. If a crime boss says "I'll give $100k dollars to anybody who murders the governer", then that's not covered by free speech. Do you think this crossed the line? https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/clipped-video-mans-sentencing-over-social-media-comments-is-misleading-2024-08-16/:
i think if he actually โ€˜smashed the hotelโ€™ then a crime was committed his shitpost got 6 likes he got 20 months in jail
Why did it cut out right at the climaxโ€ฆ video editors these days should be locked upโ€ฆ
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sean 3 months ago
Game of thrones vibes. Scary
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Trivium 3 months ago
"Hate speech" is a made up term. And criminalizing it is absurd and an obvious reach into censorship. Hate is an emotion. Try a grammatical substitution to test its validity. "Emotional speech". Criminalizing it means targeting speech based on the speakerโ€™s perceived emotional state and punishes thoughts, not actions. Speech is typically regulated only when it causes direct harm, like incitement to violence (Brandenburg v. Ohio, 1969) or defamation. Criminalizing "hate speech" mean punishing a broad category of expression that includes any emotionally charged statement, which is unenforceable and absurd.
Freedom of speech means you have the freedom to say things that are approved by the state, bro.
This is unbelievable. His own words could be interpreted as hate speech too.
Now action must be taken We donโ€™t need the key Weโ€™ll break inโ€ฆ Yes I know my enemies Theyโ€™re the teachers who taught me to fight me Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams All of which are American dreams image
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Gale Rush 3 months ago
I would guess his taxes are paying for the hotel to be filled with immigrants... When is it time to act, and how do you act?
TOTALITARIANISM IS HERE. โ€œ there can be no doubt you were inciting others to violenceโ€ What?! Yes, there can be doubt. A whole lot of doubt that thatโ€™s not what the person intended. You could act like a human and say maybe the person meant with the words they spoke actually wereโ€”that they didnโ€™t want their tax money to be wasted. A totally valid concern. This is why the law is almost always based on action, not intention. Intention is very hard to prove, and impossible to prove absolutely. All possible intentions aside. What people say changes on a whim sometimes. People get angry. People get frustrated. Sometimes they just need to let it out. And when they do sometimes just hearing what theyโ€™re saying, brings them back down to earth and calm them down. We all know that punishing people with years in prison over words and opinions is ridiculous. What makes this all make sense is if they are seriously just looking for a way to incriminate anyone they want.
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Mambafx 3 months ago
I got an investment proposals for you, HMU RN for more details and see if youโ€™d like to give it a shot.๐Ÿ’ฏ
How pathetic. Can the UK offer no resistance to this kind of tyranny?
So what? Did he injure anyone? Did he destroy anyone's property? The politicians are turning the UK into a third world crime ridden shithole, what's their sentence? What's about the politicians who took bribes and forced their subjects to get an experimental untested and in many cases lethal medical intervention?
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SatsAndSports 3 months ago
I'm making a different point, primarly about rage-bait on Nostr. I'll have to write a longer message to explain it: You don't need to convince me to dislike the UK. I'm Irish, and am very aware of the UK's problems and hypocrisy ๐Ÿ˜€. There are many recent examples, such as taking the rap group Kneecap to court for waving a flag I support free speech as much as anyone on Nostr; I've been annoying my friends for decades with how much I support privacy, and the right of assembly, and free speech, and so on. If I promise that I will pay any hitman who murders my enemy, I'm guilty of murder, even though in practice it means I'm being locked up for words I said. I'm quite happy to allow people to advocate for death and destruction of large groups of people; as distasteful as that will be. But when somebody directs violence against an individual or a very small group ("let's burn anyone living in this hotel"), then I think they are crossing a line. However, I can understand that people might draw the line elsewhere. In fact, maybe somebody wouldn't have a problem with giving verbal directions to hitmen. Maybe the crime boss isn't guilty for saying words, but would instead by guilty at the moment they pay the hitman. However, we didn't get an opportunity to discuss all these issues. Instead, a very selectively-edited video was shared to generate rage and engagement. We love to say "Bitcoin/Nostr fixes this", but it doesn't (immediately) fix every problem ๐Ÿ˜€ I don't like hate speech laws, i.e. laws that specifically adjust the sentences of "normal" crimes due to vague "hate" issues. Therefore, I would like this person to be free. Such laws are inappropriate and therefore should be opposed, even if it means some undesirable people are freed. If the UK didn't have these 'hate speech' laws, and if the UK generally respected the basic rights we all support, then this person might still be prosecuted under 'normal' laws around organizing and inciting violence against small groups, and I (and you!) might be supportive of that prosecution. This person identified a small group of people, shared their location, and tried to organize a violent mob to burn those people to their death. We could have had a good discussion on this, where everybody got all the relevant facts at the start, to allow us to debate where the line is drawn. And I'm open to drawing the line at a very extreme position. But instead we had some rage-bait via selectively-edited video
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PAKES 3 months ago
I love those old Monty Python sketches ๐Ÿ˜…
Mysteries of the Bitcoin Citadel (Audio Drama) Lauren thought she was driving north to sign papers and sell a crumbling lakeside lodge. Instead, she found her uncleโ€™s fortress of paranoia-every wall humming with riddles, ledgers, and the sense heโ€™d built it for something no one will explain.
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rapadu 3 months ago
Why cop out and not upload the complete video?! Itโ€™s a bit different in context, wouldnโ€™t you say? Thatโ€™s TwiX tactics. We donโ€™t need this on Nostr.
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rapadu 3 months ago
Have a look in the comments. Full context has been quoted & discussed. We donโ€™t want TwiX culture replicated on Nostr. (At least Iโ€˜d prefer not to.)
Nearly two years in prison for online criticismโ€ฆ unless you think he literally meant peopleโ€™s dogs should be smashing a hotel. The thing with long form articles that โ€œfact checkโ€ is they are often intentionally misleading because most people donโ€™t take the time to read past the title. He was arrested for a critique of the society he lives in. Thereโ€™s no way anyone should spend two years in prison for this: (Source the article you linked) image
You didnโ€™t include the next section of the article. He gave a location, time, and said he would do it too. Britain is still an Orwellian shithole, but these types of threats are prosecuted if there is violence that happens afterwards. Depends on the country too. image
Tbf 50 years ago you'd hear worse than this in any pub in Britain. The problem is a lack of privacy in communication. Most people are unaware of how public their online discourse is.
I actually misread that, I thought it was the other user giving the time and placeโ€ฆ fair enough. I agree that you shouldnโ€™t incite violence and definitely shouldnโ€™t make a plan for it to happen. All the best ๐Ÿค
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