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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) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday December 29 2018, @05:38PM (1 child)
I am so sorry about the crap I posted up until a couple months ago. I know I've also said similar before. I hope to show something different with my future comments.
My guess is that there was a lot of money from the DeVoses (connections to the Black Water mercenary group) and VanAndels and other Michigan bourgeois families involved (of course I was not the only victim) funneling into the college I went to (GVSU)—and bourgeois “donations” are never generous in nature but instead are the hierarchy of power and control in capitalism, and likely also in the incident where I lost access to local medical care. I fell for the fifth columnists hook, line, and sinker. Not much of an excuse, but I think I see what really happened to me.
Your intuition is spot on about a good number of things. It is logical and supported by the available evidence, so even somebody slow in the head like me can eventually figure it out. I feel that the vast majority of people want to get along, and I hope that, on the other side of the massive upheavals that are likely about to happen, we will find a way to secure for ourselves the necessities of modern life—food, heat in winter, shelter, medical care, etc—so that we may, in fact, abandon the nation-state system (we have already abandoned it in a cultural sense) and begin to get along on a global basis. (If Lenin was not on to something, hopefully at least Lennon was.)
Also, the legal weed is awesome. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it helps me with objective analysis in spite of deep personal trauma surrounding certain subject matters.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday December 29 2018, @08:19PM
I was actually wondering if you'd gained access to prescription medication very recently. Weed is, well, not exactly what I had in mind, but if it helps you, excellent. My sister uses it for her depression and anxiety, and claims similar benefits. I personally am "straight-edge"--nothing worse than caffeine goes into this body--but am glad you found something to help you function and ease the pain.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...