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Originally Posted by Qtx
So many police stations closed down and moved to town halls. My local station is in a town hall that closes at the same time as the rest of the building too. It does have a phone outside which I assume you can use to call night staff but I doubt its very helpful and probably just to tell you to call back in the morning or dial 999 or whatever.
The problem with 'think of the children' is it is used as a way to start the first step towards the real stuff they want to do. GCHQ are trying to use that angle to get around encryption at the moment by suggesting chat programs pre-scan chats on the client end because of child predators, when everyone knows they just want to spy on everything everyone does and encryption gets in the way of that.
We had mission creep with website blocking which was only ever going to be used to block bad kiddy sites but is now used to block sites by very rich media and watch companies etc.
That Alex Jones guy from infowars spouted a lot of crap and got kicked off the net without any real due legal action. Yet a few things he was saying was true and he mentioned about sex trafficking happening on an island by rich people before Epstein was caught. So a site giving information about that was censored despite it warning people of it.
People were DDoSing and hacking some arabic sites where terrorists were believed to be chatting or grooming people but the security services wanted the sites up and running so they could see what was being said and make links between things. Better for the site to be up and uncensored in this case.
Censorship is always a bad trail to go down imo and laws forcing it are never going to fully do what people bringing them intend them to do either.
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I have some sympathy with what you say, so it's a shame that the website owners didn't co-operate with the voluntary code of conduct that was tried first.
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Originally Posted by Paul
If someone asks me if I dislike them, and why, then I'll tell them.
I dont know anyone who randomly walks up to someone they dislike and says "Hey, I dont like you, because ......<whatever>"
(But again, I see no reason they cannot do so, if they really want to, you cannot try and force anyone to like anyone else).
Again seem to confuse a handful of large social media sites with the vast majority of sites.
Facebook, Twitter etc are a small fraction of the total sites, which this proposed law wants to cover.
As I said before, its not a hammer to crack a nut, its a stonking big pile driver to crack a very small nut.
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Well, our thoughts are private to others (on this Earth anyway) so, unless this view is expressed, nobody else would know.
Anyone coming out and telling somebody that they didn't like them because they were black, disabled, gay etc would be committing an offence.
Some just like to harass/upset/annoy people in protected groups and think that if they stay clear of mentioning certain subjects or using certain terminology that they will get away with it.
The police/courts aren't daft and they look at everything holistically, particularly if the person has requested no further contact from them. This forms part of my current complaint to the police about an individual on Facebook.