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Well, the law is there. How it applies it’s a different thing. Here is one fresh that actually got jail time for posting mean stuff https://www.northants.police

• zimpenfish 2y ago
  > posting mean stuff "inflammatory posts on social media calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight" I dunno, I think there's a bit of a gap between "mean stuff" and "racial hatred with an incitement to murder".
  • thefounder 2y ago
    Right…and 3 years prison for that. The gap got pretty narrower. I think half of the gaming communities should be put in jail under this law. Saying a trans women is a boy is also gender hatred with possible catastrophic harm (as we know the suicide rate is pretty high on trans people). To be honest I would not be surprised at all to see people in jail for what JK Rowling said.
    • zimpenfish 2y ago
      > To be honest I would not be surprised at all to see people in jail for what JK Rowling said. Ok but she wasn't even charged which suggests that people aren't going to be going to jail for saying what she said. I don't get how you take "she said some horrible stuff and wasn't charged" to "people will go to jail for saying the same thing" because there's no evidence or logical connection between the two stances.