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Nanny-fascism because of crackdowns on racist riots?
by redwoolf 2y ago
Nanny-fascism because of crackdowns on racist riots?
- redwoolf 2y agoWhy the fuck does a simple question get downvoted? Jesus Christ!
- rendall 2y agoI didn't downvote it, but it comes off a a poison pill, not assuming good faith.
- rendall 2y agoProbably due to this kind of thing: > London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. > "We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News > One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online. https://www.aol.com/news/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-extradite-003046067.html?guccounter=1 https://www.aol.com/news/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-ex...
- aleph__one 2y agoDon’t bother with the troll. Just another Putin-bot.
- bpodgursky 2y agoI don't think it's humanly possible for me to verify my real-world identity any more clearly. There aren't any other bpodgursky's on or off the internet.
- redwoolf 2y agoI’m not a fucking troll
- aleph__one 2y agoNot you redwoolf! The other one ;)
- aleph__one 2y agoredwoolf: as you’ll no doubt have noticed by now, the internet is awash with bots (or worse, people) pushing right-wing and/or blatant Russian propaganda. This is one of the standard lines: any pushback against verifiably criminal actions is “censorship”. You and I know the legal difference between posting “I disagree with the government” and “You should get a gun and shoot somebody”. One is protected free speech, the other is incitement of violence - which does not matter if you incite in person or on an online forum. Don’t worry about the trolls and Kremlin-lovers, they’re a dime a dozen these days and not worth the hassle.
- bpodgursky 2y agoDude you need to have some kind of psych eval. 1. I'm a real American who is very easy to find. I've been on HN for a decade. I'm the easiest person on earth to find. 2. If you bothered to look up my other social media, you'd see that I'm vocally anti-Russia. If I was the US president, Ukraine would have aircraft carriers, F35s, and a couple thermonuclear warheads by now. 3. As an American, who likes American things like free speech and blowing up Russians, I can also notice and object when traditional bastions of liberty like the UK turn into fascist states who arrest people for posting on Facebook. The world isn't simple, and everyone you disagree with isn't a paid troll. Engage with other opinions and you may learn something.
- declan_roberts 2y agoApparently anyone advocating for 1A rights is a Russian agent of some kind. It just makes zero sense to me. Aren't we fighting Russia in Ukraine to preserve these very rights? Yet peacetime countries seem to be willingly throwing them in the trash.