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“A ‘knowingly false communication’ offence will be created that will criminalise those who send or post a message they know to be false with the intention to ca

“A ‘knowingly false communication’ offence will be created that will criminalise those who send or post a message they know to be false with the intention to cause ‘emotional, psychological, or physical harm to the likely audience’. Government sources gave the example of antivaxers spreading false information that they know to be untrue.”

fennecfoxen 5y ago
just need the government to put us on notice as to what’s true and what’s lies, and we’ll have solved the problem of dissent!
- nyxaiur 5y ago
  You are electing your government I get why people jump to censorship conclusions and what not but in the end if we all look a bit more to whom we are electing we might just get this right instead of building the dystopian future everyone seems to look forward to.
anonymouswacker 5y ago
How can they know the intent? UK government is increasingly becoming a nightmare dystopia. I doubt many "antivaxers" are knowingly spreading false information. What the government/establishment/authority-de-jure says is the truth is rarely the whole truth.
- loceng 5y ago
  My guess it's a process: 1) you post something "untrue", 2) the captured-incompetent establishment/government tells you it's untrue, 3) you post it again, 4) they arrest you because "you knew it was untrue because we told you it was."
loceng 5y ago
So what's untrue is whatever the establishment and captured-incompetent institutions decide is untrue? E.g. posting that Ivermectin shows 50%+ reduction in mortality (citing the studies) would have high probability to be deemed "spreading false information" - based on current behaviour regarding even mentioning Ivermectin?
trinovantes 5y ago
Pretty dystopic How do you determine who the "likely audience" is? Can someone or groups you don't know be the audience? What about statements that cannot be verified? e.g. the existence of God(s)

fennecfoxen 5y ago

just need the government to put us on notice as to what’s true and what’s lies, and we’ll have solved the problem of dissent!

nyxaiur 5y ago
You are electing your government I get why people jump to censorship conclusions and what not but in the end if we all look a bit more to whom we are electing we might just get this right instead of building the dystopian future everyone seems to look forward to.

anonymouswacker 5y ago

How can they know the intent? UK government is increasingly becoming a nightmare dystopia. I doubt many "antivaxers" are knowingly spreading false information. What the government/establishment/authority-de-jure says is the truth is rarely the whole truth.

loceng 5y ago
My guess it's a process: 1) you post something "untrue", 2) the captured-incompetent establishment/government tells you it's untrue, 3) you post it again, 4) they arrest you because "you knew it was untrue because we told you it was."

loceng 5y ago

So what's untrue is whatever the establishment and captured-incompetent institutions decide is untrue? E.g. posting that Ivermectin shows 50%+ reduction in mortality (citing the studies) would have high probability to be deemed "spreading false information" - based on current behaviour regarding even mentioning Ivermectin?

trinovantes 5y ago

Pretty dystopic How do you determine who the "likely audience" is? Can someone or groups you don't know be the audience? What about statements that cannot be verified? e.g. the existence of God(s)