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Originally Posted by Paul M
This sounds like a very bad, very dangerous idea.
"We dont agree with your views, so we will ban you from everywhere".
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This is one thing that worries me. One of the foundations of our society is our freedom (within limits, admittedly) to express ourselves. That expression will, from time to time, cause offence. While I don't support racism in any way, shape or form, I am concerned that the amount of controls on what we say being increased will impact on our freedom to disagree with one another. I am worried that we'll end up in a situation where even if we don't get laws controlling what we believe and say, we'll be a situation where we are so concerned about how what we say is being heard that we'll limit it too much, which will have the same effect as any law.
This can (and will) be abused by some people.
Also, there is the slight problem of enforceability. Without the security services devoting a huge amount of resources to monitoring potentially thousands of people, how will we know that a person who has just had some sort of order banning their online access given to them, hasn't just left the court, gone into an internet cafe (there are still some around), paid cash for 15 minutes of access and registered a whole load of other accounts to send abuse from?