Sharing Hate Posts On Social Media Could Lead To 6 months Jail

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Judges are recommending draconian punishments for social media users who share posts that stir up hatred against racial, religious or sexual minority groups.

Under proposed new rules, ‘internet trolls’ who share or comment on racist or anti-gay postings will face six months in jail.

Critics say that the proposals mean heedless insults could result in prison sentences…..seems like Orwell’s 1984 is truly here

The Mail Online reports: Anyone who is convicted of orginating hate speech that threatens anyone’s life or which is widely distributed should expect three years.

Even someone whose words or material were judged as hateful, but were not considered to have threatened life or reached a big audience, is likely to be punished with a year in jail.

But critics say the proposals will mean young people who heedlessly throw insults against racial, religious or sexual groups on the internet are at risk of prison sentences.

The recommendations, which will be subject to a three-month consultation, come at a time of deepening sensitivity to racism and abuse about sexuality online.

On top of long-standing concerns about material posted by extremists, accusations have been levelled against those in mainstream politics and other well-known individuals.

Labour Party figures have been accused of anti-Semitism, while veteran feminist Germaine Greer and gay rights and free speech campaigner Peter Tatchell are among those who have been labelled as hate-peddlers for questioning the claims of the transgender lobby.

Stirring up hatred is a crime under the 1986 Public Order Act.

The council’s proposals say the most serious hate offences include speeches given by public figures with the aim of stirring up hatred, online content inciting violence towards racial or religious groups, and websites that publish abusive and insulting material to a worldwide audience over a long period.

Aggravating factors include activity ‘in a particularly sensitive social climate’ or delivered to an impressionable audience.

Using multiple social media platforms also makes an offence more grave.

Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, described the guidelines as bizarre, saying they were ‘not strict enough where they should be strict, too severe where greater leniency is called for’.

‘Only three years for hate speech that leads to people getting killed? Ridiculously soft,’ he said.

‘But six months for “hate trolling”? Are there enough prison places to lock up these hate trolls?’

He said the law needed to distinguish between ‘young and foolish’ individuals who say silly things and ‘really dangerous radicalisers and purveyors of violence who exploit the social media to wreak havoc and death’.

 

 

8 Comments

  1. So these judges think they have the right to take away the rights granted by God almighty and the constitution. This is the very thing they swore an oath to uphold, and also swore to God almighty they would uphold such. I suggest we find out who these traitors are, storm the courtrooms they think they own, drag them out by their ears or testicals, give them a trial by twelve anrgy men, and upon conviction for treason, hang them on the spot. Now how is my speech you bozo traitors, do you find me politcally correct? I hope upon your convictions, that I am chosen to do your hanging.

  2. totalitarianism doesn’t accept any dissent or disagreement with their chosen ways They claim infallible correctness But peddling hate takes many forms and should be outlawed That is true..At the end of the day it always comes back to the same thing Who has the right to say they are the true path.

    • Christians have the right to say they are on the true path….. everybody else is on the wrong path….. its not rocket science…. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.. while you still can…or perish

  3. The Bible proclaims homosexuality is an abomination to God. So to express the opinion that the homosexual/transexual/crossdresser agenda is wrong is just an affirmation of my religious rights. Am I going to listen to God’s teachings of some idiot judges legal opinion???….Hmmmm, let me see…..I think I will listen to the one who can sentence my soul to hell for eternal damnation for disobeying. Gays are free to listen to the judge because they are going to hell for eternity anyway.

    • Well really God doesn’t condemn anyone to hell for being glbt if you read the Bible he only offers them the choice to forgo their Pride and live their lives accepting that they aren’t the norm They reject the offer and stubbornly insist that they are right to be proud..He does accept Pride is a Sin but the Bible also teaches us that the one thing God hates above all Sins and Abominations is the Hypocrite and that he also does hate the proud and haughty man But He also teaches us that the way of eternal life in paradise comes from forgiveness of sin ,of the sins of others too, and by repentance and turning away from Sin ,which includes Pride .Community pride professional pride family pride career pride military pride academic pride, financial pride or just plain old ordinary house proud .But now Gannon , the Bush era journalist who was outed , for example for being gay and working in gay escort agencies and so on who then was forced to resign his position shut down his web site and apologies for his past “mistakes” is , to me an example of exactly the type of person who should be receiving protection from those laws ,and against the very governments and police and secret services who have persecuted harassed stalked and threatened the lives of persons like him for decades and done it all operating under the protection of rule of law..

  4. Does that mean that’s saying stuff like..allah is satan is not allowed….?/.. or saying stuff like all homosexuals should be killed is not allowed? or saying stuff like muslims should all be killed is not allowed???? stuff like that?

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