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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Scottish Government to consider how to deal with misogyny.
Should this become a hate crime in Scotland I assume that the Online Safety Act will have to be amended for those who live in Scotland, unless the rest of the UK decides to adopt any measures for simplicity.
If they don't things could get messy as online offences take place where you physically are when you publish the comments so, if someone wanted to make misogynistic comments they could leave Scotland, publish their remarks and then return to Scotland!!
https://www.gov.scot/groups/misogyny...working-group/
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The Scottish Parliament can’t bind the UK Government to act in reserved areas - which the regulation of telecommunications is.
The Scottish Government do have form for ill thought out legislation though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offens...land)_Act_2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender...Scotland)_Bill