Government “Scouring Social Media” to Arrest People for Sharing “Harmful” Riot Footage
The Government is cracking down on people who share social media posts about the riots that it judges are “likely to start racial hatred”, regardless of their intent. Fox News has more.
Riots have broken out across the U.K. in recent days over false rumours spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. The murders, allegedly committed by a now 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents, sparked a series of violent protests that tapped into broader concerns about the scale of immigration in the U.K.
Footage of the violent clashes involving anti-immigration protesters and the groups of counter-protesters, some of whom have been seen waving Palestinian flags, has gone viral on social media, and the Government is warning that sharing such content may have serious consequences.
The Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson, warned against “publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred. So, if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you’re committing that offence [incitement to racial hatred]”.
He added further, “We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth.”
“So it’s very, very serious. People might think they’re not doing anything harmful. They are. And the consequences will be visited upon them,” Parkinson said.
Worth reading in full.
Yesterday, a 55-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly spreading false information about the identity of the Southport attacker on social media.
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Can someone get Orwell back from the Grave I’d like the Government and he to compare notes…
As far as the “55-year old woman” was concerned, it seems that she unwisely commented on other stories that emerged online.
As I understand it, the wording of the relevant legislation means, in order for any prosecution to be successful, the court would have to be presented with evidence that her actions were likely to cause an imminent act of racial violence, which sets the bar pretty high.
In context, it seems much more likely that her highly publicised arrest is just an attempt by TBTB to intimidate others who might be tempted to share information on the web, and I expect that she will eventually be released quietly with no further action taken.
I think what’s happening also drives home the fact that Twitter is the only safe social media platform. Never in a million years would I pass comment on FB. I learnt that lesson during the scamdemic but now they’re actively tracing you and the Stasi goons are coming to kick your door in to arrest you, then you’d be a fool to hang out there. Doesn’t it just make you thankful for the likes of Twitter and Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech though? It’s a safe space for now, anyway..
Yes, but don’t think the Social Engineering Political Class are not working on how to silence all UK content on Twitter. It must be keeping them up at night knowing that we know their multicultural dogma, their gender ideology and their phony planet saving is total globalist crap.
Oh I know they’re all tying themselves in knots plotting how to circumvent or change the current laws and legislations so as to censor free speech and persecute dissidents further. Case in point: listen to the toxic clown that is Humza Yousaf. Elon Musk is the Devil incarnate as far as him and his ilk are concerned, so threatened and frustrated they are. Because if they got rid of Twitter that’d be it, wouldn’t it? Gawd, he’s such a dramallama;
”Scotland’s former PM Humza Yousaf calls for a crackdown against X and calls Elon Musk “one of the most dangerous men”
“The most wicked, evil possible”
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1821907152308466050
We fortunately got rid of that turd in Scotland and the SNP are decimated, and rightly so, but now we have a dangerous Labour government with a huge majority which makes then virtual dictators.
Yes, just as they did with people innocently sitting outdoors on park benches drinking coffee during lockdowns. They made an example of one or 2 people to make headlines, but were never going to catch them all…….
“… it seems that she unwisely commented on other stories that emerged online.”
Unwisely? Who decides it is ‘unwise’?
During the French Revolution the Law of Suspects empowered local revolutionary committees to arrest “those who by their conduct, relations or language spoken or written, have shown themselves partisans of tyranny or federalism and enemies of liberty.” In 1793–94 well over 200,000 citizens were detained under this law; though most of them never stood trial, they languished in pestiferous jails, where an estimated 10,000 perished. About 17,000 death sentences were handed down by the military commissions and revolutionary tribunals of the Terror. The 3 words that the French Revolution stood for were “Liberty, equality, fraternity”.
The Revolution that some are trying to bring about today also uses 3 words, not dissimilar: “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion”
The French Revolution did not bring about freedoms in the modern world. It was the ability to grow abundant food and produce abundant energy, underpinned by English Common Law, that was rooted in Judeo-Christion teachings . During the French revolution Christianity was outlawed.
I used the expression “unwise” because, although she believed what she wrote, it was factually incorrect and allowed the authorities to steam in and ridicule her. She made herself a very convenient target for their action.
Understood, however there is still no excuse to arrest someone for saying, or writing something that may be incorrect, unless it’s libel. On that point it seems it’s fair game for some to libel the indigenous British and call them fascists or far right.
She got the completely false information and name of an apparent ‘illegal’ migrant who had just come over on the boat, from a source called Channel 3 on Telegram. No-one seems to know anything about this Channel….is it there to deliberately plant false information?
Lawfare – the punishment is the process.
They’re sentencing people right now at Leeds Crown Court. Someone’s just been sentenced to 20 months. Some of this is total bilge. They’re saying people are members of the EDL. To be fair, they’re also sending the Muslims down;
Rioter made racially aggravated gestures at woman
”Leeds Crown Court has been shown a clip of Jordan Plain making gestures towards a woman, in what the prosecution described as being racially aggravated.
Plain was with a group of “English Defence League supporters” during a demonstration outside Leeds Art Gallery on 3 August.
The group he was with imitated how Muslim people pray and wrapped flags and t-shirts around their heads to mock hijabs, the court heard.
Counter-protesters started chanting “sit down you baldy” at Plain, which “aggravated” him, before he then made racist gestures again.
The victim, a student who hopes to become a politician, said the incident has left her mental health “shattered” and she doesn’t “feel welcome” in her home.”
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-riots-latest-rioters-and-man-who-stirred-up-racial-hatred-on-facebook-being-sentenced-13186819
Swift justice? I trust the Manchester airport brothers have already been tried, found guilty and sent down? After all there’s video to identify them.
Thought not.
Well it says on that page that the Labour councillor is due to appear at the magistrates today so we’ll see how they treat him, shall we?
Magistrates Court – not Crown Court. Big difference.
Who knows? Maybe they will send him to Crown Court 🙂
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. If that councillor had said those very same words ( with cutting throat gesture ) but referring to Muslims he’d be finished, in that he’d get the same treatment as that Batley school teacher who’s still in hiding, life turned upside down for showing a bloody picture! Beggars belief! But doesn’t this just further demonstrate the total contrast in cultures? Christians, or just non-Muslims, wouldn’t chase a person out of town, threaten them and their family or put pressure on a school to bend to their will in order to persecute a member of staff for showing a damned drawing of Jesus ( other Gods and deities are available for general criticism and Mick-taking purposes ).
Ah yes, but one is just political hyperbole and the other is blasphemy and incitement to violence.
There should be no such thing as ”blasphemy” in the Western, civilized world. That’s the whole reason free speech is to be valued and fought for. And showing a picture of someone’s preferred ‘god’ hardly qualifies as ‘incitement to violence’, but unfortunately we’re now living amongst so many people that are triggered and have preferential treatment, so much so that our authorities walk on egg shells and bend over backwards so as not to offend the poor snowflakes. The West Midlands police have recently demonstrated this nicely.
Which is why islam had no place whatsoever in British society.
You are 100% correct. —Police Chiefs are you listening?
Or maybe to Hampton Court and be sentenced to walk 50 times around the Maze.
The Labour Councillor is not dealt with within a week. Why is that?
They have taken him off the streets so he is out of sight – remanded in custody until September supposedly because the judge thought he would do more of the same.
In other words, Starmer’s Stasi Courts making sure Starmer cannot be embarrassed by his Far Left goon again.
Why remand him in custody?
Why not deal with him in seven days like all the other dangerous people?
Why not charged with incitement to violence?
All very very strange.
Or maybe not strange under Starmer’s Stasi?
You all need to be careful about commenting on Manchester airport.
If you study the video carefully the brothers may have a defence of acting in self-defence and damages claims for assault and battery against the police.
The police came up behind one of the brothers and grabbed him and tried to handcuff him without even attempting to speak to him.
So take care and stop commenting on it.
Another one here. But just for posting something online. They’re doing similar to what they did to Sam Meilo and using him as a deterrent to others; ”A MARYPORT man responding online to police action to deter public disorder in Carlisle published a Facebook post which encouraged violence, a court heard. A District Judge sitting at Carlisle’s Rickergate court jailed 31-year-old Billy Thompson after hearing that his Facebook message responded to news of a city centre dispersal order to prevent disorder with the words “Filthy ****ards.” The comment was accompanied by emojis showing an ethnic minority person and a gun. Imposing a 12-week jail term, District Judge John Temperley told the defendant, from Victory Crescent, Maryport, that there had to be a deterrent sentence to discourage the kind of violent behaviour that such messages encouraged. Thompson pleaded guilty to an allegation of posting an offensive or menacing message as defined by the Communications Act. District Judge Temperley told the defendant: “It may be right that the starting point [sentence] is a community order for this offence but I am afraid this has to be viewed within the context of the current civil unrest up and down the country. “I have no doubt… Read more »
Yes let’s deter all those dangerous ——-messages.????. —-I saw a message once and jeez did it really hurt. I was in hospital for 2 weeks and needed therapy for 3 months. ——–I am still not fully recovered from that message, but the good thing about it was I never actually punched any police woman in the nose.
Under Labour’s new rules, will that 20 months now only be 8 months?
Yes but if they release a few hundred murderers that should create a bit of space in some jails for the Speech Criminals
Just what we need more of.
Why would she not feel welcome in her home? Odd.
Just wondering, would someone gesturing the putting on of shoes, ties, trousers, hat, shirt/blouse or a dress be deemed as racially aggravated behaviour, to someone who did any of those actions?
This whole thing is very unsettling, I find it hard not to contemplate the possibility that these riots and the subsequent actions have been used to serve a purpose.. The Police and the Courts seem to have swung into action in an unprecedented manner to enact some modern day version of the Bloody Assizes. Are they really this ready to act at short notice in this way or was this all planned?………just asking for a friend!
The other aspect of this that I find deeply troubling is that nobody seems to be asking what are the worries, frustrations and concerns of the people who were so ready to riot. I find it hard not to conclude that this has all been done in such a way as to close down debate on immigration, ethnic issues and Islamophobia. The messages coming out are that in future nobody should dare to go anywhere near these issues or you will suffer the modern version of being hung, drawn and quartered.
They’re certainly very convenient for a government rejected by the majority of the population keen on selling the country down the river for the benefit of an international billionaire’s club,
Well they certainly found 500+ prison places pretty conveniently and in a timely manner didn’t they? What with prisons being so over-crowded and everything….Very organized;
”The government has brought forward plans to make more than 500 new prison places available to deal with rioters arrested over the past week.
From next week, 567 more places will be available, courts minister Heidi Alexander told Sky News.
They will be spread across a new housing block at Stocken Prison in Rutland and the newly repurposed HMP Cookham Wood, a former young offenders institution in Borstal, Kent, that was closed in March after the prisons watchdog called it “inhumane”.
The government already had plans to provide more space at the institutions to deal with the country’s prison overcrowding problem, but it is bringing those forward to deal with rioters over the past week who are expected to be held on remand in prison.”
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-riots-more-than-500-new-prison-places-released-to-deal-with-those-behind-disorder-13191726
No one has produced the ‘intelligence’ about the 100 planned riots.
So yes to me it seems all premeditated State violence and suppression coordinated with the Far Left to make it look like we all want uncontrolled immigration including illegals coming here in boats to take up housing, benefits etc and put public services even more under strain.
Well if they can “identify people” why do some half wits I see on TV news, Twitter etc or even those in authority and some politicians demand people should not have anonymity when they post things online? Do they really want us to post our full name on social media so every nut job extremist can trace us all the way to our house and cover the car in brake fluid, or set the garage on fire? ——Yes, they are so dumb this is what they are proposing.——–But it is a dead cert that politicians will seize the opportunity to “never let a good crisis go to waste” to control the internet with even more draconian powers to shut us all up.
why do … those in authority and some politicians demand people should not have anonymity when they post things online? Online anonymity is a myth. Yes to others comments may seem anonymous. But these days most people are not anonymous and can be traced from the information they provided when they signed up and their email and IP addresses and digital fingerprints from their computers and phones and other devices. So we don’t need laws to ‘take away anonymity’ because it is not there in the first place. Almost everyone can be identified. The withdrawal of anonymity is to require people to give their real names and identities when posting online. That will have a chilling effect on free speech. We have all no doubt experienced what happens when trolls try to work out peoples’ identities and then the torrents of abuse and attacks start with a trolling pile-on. We all know from celebrities and prominent public figures about the huge levels of trolling which go on. No one would be able to comment freely online if we all had to give our real names and identities. It would be far far too dangerous. The fact that all online systems… Read more »
Yes I know we can all be traced so why are idiots demanding we put our name on posts so we can be traced by every half with extremist right to our front door?
How do you know that you’re living in a democracy where your human rights will be respected? It can’t be government agencies threatening people with prosectution for distributing truthful material the government happens to dislike, can it?
Well democracy is decidedly NOT how the British Isles could be described. Fast becoming a third world shit hole. I wonder why?
Quite right.
Something seems to have gone keir-shaped recently.
😀 😀 😀
I heard someone on the News say “We need more bobbies on the beat”——-No they are wrong we actually need “more bobbies on the scour”.
so much easier to go after free speech and to censor than tackle the fundamental problem.
Shutting down discussions will not solve anything.
Labour are like the Conservatives showing themselves to be incapable of addressing the real issues, they prefer to shut down those who show the problems
According to an article someone linked to elsewhere, the Obama administration had the innovative idea that all special powers created for the so-called war on terror could be repurposed for domestic politics by redefining terrorist to mean dissident and thus, inventing the concept of the right wing terrorist as enemy within and getting around all these pesky rights which make dealing with one’s political opponents so cumbersome. And that’s exactly what Keir Charmless is doing as well. His real problem is how to ram policies through the population doesn’t want. And that’s a problem he hopes to solve in this way.
Why would he care for the skin colour, religion or culture of his subjects?
Perhaps he’s got shares in firms that provide Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other ways of reducing the risk of being tracked by the old bill. Spot the increase in demand for services like that.
I will not make any comment for or against the article, despite what I may actually think about it.
In fact I don’t think at all. About anything. Ever.
And I can say with all honesty that I didn’t even ever think of making any comment for or against such article or articles previously.
And furthermore I can say with all honesty that in the future I will never make any comment, nor even think of making any comment about it or similar.
Nor have I ever in the past ever thought about making any comments whatsoever about it or similar articles.
Now can you please resurrect by CBDC implant.
Is it an offence to point out that
NO ONE VOTED FOR MASS IMMIGRATION?
Although if you believe those images and headlines of ‘1000s of anti-facist’ marches someone must be? According to the BBC and The Guardian it’s all ‘refugees welcome’ and worry about the safety of our children and our communities being taken over are just the idiotic ramblings of a few extremists. Just listen to the first few minutes of this so called ‘comedy’ – 2 minutes in and I had to switch it off. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021qx8?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile (Yes, I know I should stop paying for this rubbish)
I haven’t had a telly for decades, and can’t access that link, but I can well imagine how awful it must be.
What happens if someone quotes Verse 9.29 of the Koran?
Wouldn’t it be great if police and this government put this much effort into scouring Real crime, you know, like all the kids stabbing each other, burglaries of homes, sheds, farms, and stealing from shops, graffiti, anti social behaviour in our towns late at night for YEARS? But no, you can now be reassured the police our SCOURING social media for some thing someone said. That should make GB a crime free place to live!😂😂😂🤡🌏. Hope people wake up.
Starmer’s Far Left government – cracking down on people innocently doing things which they do not think is wrong. Totally contrary to our supposed system of justice.
Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 all rolled up in one.
“Two legs good. Four legs bad.”
Brand anyone who is not Far Left as Far Right and then crush them using the perverted organs of state.
No one on the Far Left demonstrations recently has been prosecuted for their threatening abusive and insulting behaviours including what was on their banners posters and T shirts and what they screamed as abuse against ordinary people concerned about out of control immigration.
Shame the Police don’t have some dedicated teams to deal with the plague of shoplifters.
Or grooming gangs.
Has anyone been arrested for spreading false information about a hundred or so ‘Far Right’ rallies/riots supposed to be taking place at the end of the week?
Who has been arrested for the “Safe and Effective” misinformation – very dangerous that one, thousands dead and injured.