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Originally Posted by jfman
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2...acebook-posts/
This is the other one. I don’t dispute at all whether it’s grossly offensive (it is). A 12 week jail sentence does seem disproportionate. Nobody was prosecuted for the 80 million Turkish people coming to the UK billboard.
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The Turkish poster in question dates back to 2016. Since then, we've had last October's Online Safety Act. It will be interesting to see how extensively this is used as it was criticised at the time for inhibiting freedom of speech. Presumably this case was prosecuted under it?
Recent prosecutions under it include a 25-year-old man jailed for falsely claiming online he was being chased by far-right rioters, and for rapper Omar Abdirizak, aka “Twista Cheese”. He is alleged to have posted a video online claiming that Tommy Robinson had called on people to attack mosques. Robinson shared the video saying he was being threatened by the rapper, and “had never called for anyone, ever, to attack any mosque”.
The case that is making headlines under it is that of Bernadette Spofforth, of Chester, alleged to be the first person to spread false information on X that wrongly identified the suspect in the deadly Southport attacks as being a Muslim immigrant. She has been arrested but not charged.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Totalitarianism will be cheered on by the liberal middle classes……then when it’s used against them they’ll wonder “how did this happen?”
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The Online Safety Act 2023 was criticised for its restrictions on free speech at the time.