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CPS To Crack Down On Social Media Hate Crime, Says Alison Saunders
The Guardian ^ | 08/22/17 | Vikram Dodd

Posted on 08/22/2017 7:01:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Director of public prosecutions announces plans for more prosecutions and stiffer sentences for online abusers

Prosecutors will be ordered to treat online hate crime as seriously as offences carried out face to face in plans announced by the director of public prosecutions.

Alison Saunders said the Crown Prosecution Service will seek stiffer penalties for abuse on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms.

Saunders says the crackdown is needed because online abuse can lead to the sort of extremist hate seen in Charlottesville in the United States last weekend, which left one person dead.

Writing in the Guardian, Saunders said: “Left unchallenged, even low-level offending can subsequently fuel the kind of dangerous hostility that has been plastered across our media in recent days. That is why countering it is a priority for the CPS.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: crime; hate; media; social
Free speech is gone in the United Kingdom
1 posted on 08/22/2017 7:01:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Don’t question the govt handling of Muslim rape gangs, you will be prosecuted for “hate crime” !!!!!


2 posted on 08/22/2017 7:09:22 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: Enlightened1

Your Free Speech is Violence
My Violence is Free Speech


3 posted on 08/22/2017 7:10:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Biology is not bigotry.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

On a tagline coming to your forum soon.


4 posted on 08/22/2017 7:11:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Your Free Speech is Violence. My Violence is Free Speech.)
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To: Enlightened1

This is a case of dangerously naive, foolish, authoritarian liberals in the UK, who can’t see many obvious signs of a false flag operation in Charlottesville. I wouldn’t want to live in the UK or Canada now, as fascist, authoritarian government officials invent imaginary thought crimes and ruthlessly suppress freedom of speech.


5 posted on 08/22/2017 7:12:29 AM PDT by socialism_stinX (Not only does socialism stink, but when given enough time it wrecks any national economy.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Hey Jeff, that’s good, ... real good!


6 posted on 08/22/2017 7:13:53 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Jeff Chandler

That’s brilliant.

L


7 posted on 08/22/2017 7:16:37 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Enlightened1

See tagline


8 posted on 08/22/2017 7:28:48 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Crap, I thought my taghline was good, yours is better :(


9 posted on 08/22/2017 7:29:50 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: Enlightened1

Typing words is now a crime, if the gestapo thinks you should not be typing them.


10 posted on 08/22/2017 7:30:47 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Consistently acting in a way that is in opposition to our human nature is INSANITY.)
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To: I want the USA back

Thank God for the 1st.


11 posted on 08/22/2017 7:37:44 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Enlightened1
CPS To Crack Down On Social Media Hate Crime, Says Alison Saunders

Muzzie collaborator Alison Saunders will accomplish one positive consequence with her disloyalty, the view will improve with her in a burka:


12 posted on 08/22/2017 7:44:19 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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[Thank God for the 1st.]

True. They can still try and get you fired though, that is the loophole liberals like to use.

But when it comes to free speech they are going to have a hard time getting around the 1st amendment. Doesn't mean they won't try though. These totalitarians never give up.

13 posted on 08/22/2017 7:49:09 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: Enlightened1
meanwhile this sort of hate crime will continue to receive police protection:


14 posted on 08/22/2017 8:40:55 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Enlightened1

Saunders says the crackdown is needed because...

You can’t be a dictator leader without controlling speech- free speech is antithetical to absolute power- free speech empowers the people- and free speech ensures that governments do NOT have the ability to control expressions and thoughts-

For a minute there I thought the article was about the US’s government- and couldn’t believe what I was reading- then I noticed it was the UK- then I thought this IS coming here- especially if a democrat wins the next few elections- We are one or two democrat presidents away from losing our constitutional protections


15 posted on 08/22/2017 8:47:21 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

The U.K. is just further down the road.


16 posted on 08/22/2017 8:48:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


17 posted on 08/22/2017 8:56:23 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Navy Patriot

If that isn’t the face, and the ass as well, of tyranny, then I don’t know what would be.


18 posted on 08/22/2017 9:12:33 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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