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Magnanimous of them. Here's what you can get arrested for though: UK police launched an inquiry over offensive memes in a whatsapp chat. A man was later jailed
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Magnanimous of them. Here's what you can get arrested for though:
UK police launched an inquiry over offensive memes in a whatsapp chat. A man was later jailed for it:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/ex-police-officer-jailed-for-20-weeks-over-racist-whatsapp-messages https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/ex-police-of...
UK police arrest a man over offensive tweet. 150 hours community service followed:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...
UK police raiding a pub for displaying offensive dolls:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/golliwog-dolls-grays-essex-pub-closes-b2331804.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/golliwog-dolls-g...
- breakingcups 3y agoDon't forget "Police have seized my wife's laptop after one of her friends discovered and reported my wife's modded version of Skyrim." https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1974t9g/police_have_seized_my_wifes_laptop_after_one_of/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1974t9g/poli... Decency laws are a joke.
- BriggyDwiggs42 3y agoHow are they simultaneously doing that bs while at the same time being more anti-trans than other western countries. Brits are so odd.
- em-bee 3y agoi don't see the contradiction
- BriggyDwiggs42 3y agoIn theory, policing hate speech is quite left wing and hating trans people is quite right wing
- intunderflow 3y agoIt's not generally about left-wing and right-wing, it's more that the UK is an authoritarian state, with relatively very few civil liberties compared to other western countries. To give an example, when the government becomes upset with protests they just make them illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police,_Crime,_Sentencing_and_Courts_Act_2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police,_Crime,_Sentencing_and_... and if people in the UK strike too much, they just make that illegal too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikes_(Minimum_Service_Levels)_Act_2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikes_(Minimum_Service_Level...
- stetrain 3y agoProbably worth noting that the first was while serving as a police officer in a chat with colleagues. > James Watts was serving with West Mercia police in 2020 when he shared the “grossly offensive” material in a group chat, which included former colleagues at a Warwickshire prison.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoAlthough the female police officer who did an identical thing was found not guilty after the prosecution "forgot" to follow it up: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11138385/Female-police-officer-cleared-sharing-offensive-WhatsApp-messages-administrative-blunder.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11138385/Female-pol...
- LAC-Tech 3y agoI'm sure similar arrests in the Russian Federation also have caveats that are "worth noting". But in the grand scheme of things, how noteworthy are they?
- stetrain 3y agoI think the standards applied a normal citizen and a government official tasked with enforcing the law can reasonably be different. Most employers have standards and this person's employer was the government. Those standards are even more important because misconduct by government officials can lead to the kinds of injustice you seem to be worried about.
- btdmaster 3y agoDo you know any of the original Twitter accounts? I'm curious if any of them were pseudonymous in any way