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UK Cops Have Decided Impolite Online Speech Is Worth A Visit From An Officer
In this case, it was Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan being visited by the Norwich Police Department on a Sunday morning. He was apparently reported by outspoken trans rights activist Adrian Harrop. Linehan had posted tweets criticizing Harrop's televised debate with a woman who had paid for a billboard depicting the dictionary's definition of the word "woman," which bothered Harrop so much he complained and got that taken down as well.
Harrop was the reason Linehan was talking to police officers about tweets that didn't even violate the Twitter Rules. He had merely suggested Harrop's steamrolling of the billboard buyer during a televised debate might have been "male privilege." Another tweet alleged Harrop had threatened women and doxxed them for not being friendly enough to his cause. This is the tweet Harrop admits bothered him so much he needed to call the police. This is the disturbing, but ultimately useless, outcome of Harrop's decision.
[...] You can't recognize free speech while still insisting everyone has to be nice to everyone else while online. You can hope that's what will happen, but you can't demand this of the general population. Unless you're in the UK, in which case you can, because you don't really recognize free speech and should probably remove that phrase from the government's collective vocabulary.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @11:24PM (2 children)
They're not dense, you are.
You were created by a screwed up society, and think that everyone should be as screwed up as you are.
Better societies keep an eye on troubled people, and help those in need.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:19AM
Bootlicker.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 31 2018, @07:35AM
If there are all these normal people who aren't screwed up, then how did society end up that way? Mental failwaves from a few throwbacks? What's going on here is that some screw ups get to use the power of the state to harass some other screw ups. It's not going to make screwed up societies any better.