Posted on 09/19/2017 1:45:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Banning social media trolls from voting could help reduce the amount of abuse faced by politicians, the election watchdog has said.
The Electoral Commission says legislation around elections should be reviewed and new offences could be introduced.
In the commission’s submission to a committee on standards in public life inquiry into the intimidation of political candidates, officials say many offences under electoral law date back to the 1800s or earlier.
They say some electoral offences can result in an offender being disqualified from voting or from registering to vote. Such deterrents could be considered to stop abusive people, the submission says.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
With some reliability, it’s believed that 170-million Facebook accounts are fake, with some belief that millions more are suspect. It’s figured that more than forty-five million Twitter accounts are fake...but it might be millions more as well.
All this effort would do is identify John Jones of Wilmington, Delaware as a intimidator of political figures. Then you’d come to discover that John is fake...residing in Hamburg, Germany. Over and over, you’d just discover fake account after fake account. As fast as you ‘whack’ each....two more would come to replace that one.
I think the social media dimwits were happy with the system all the way up until spring of 2016...then they came to realize that social media was a double-edge sword. Now what? If you dissolve social media (the obvious solution)....you will be giving up one of your major strengths.
I’ll go and predict that by 2020’s election...we come to some social media group led by one individual with a lot of negativity attached to the individual...but then discover that instead of a 100,000 member group, it’s just 200, with a bunch of fake accounts attached to them.
The thing would be nothing more than a sound good slogan aimed at the “but my feelz!” portion of the population. The only intent and practice would be to shut down and punish with the full weight and force of the law anyone who opposed any part or piece of leftist narrative in any way, what-so-ever.
Banning social media trolls from voting could help reduce the amount of abuse faced by politicians, the election watchdog has said.
Translation: You slaves better shut up!
I would like to give a shit about what happens in Europe but I just can’t seem to find one.
Such is the insanity of a nation without individual rights enshrined in a Constitution. Of course, should you ever get 5 Liberals on the USSC then America’s Constitution will be “interpreted” out of existence.
The left is now communist (think chi-com which is really fascist); the new world order and governing structure is to be communist (chi-com).
It’s real easy to see who is and who is not going to be persecuted and murdered in this scheme.
Concentration camps for “intimidation of political candidates” is the next step.
The US has no such commission
Britain is not a precursor
We’ve got the same totalitarians here who would suggest the same damn thing!
And they expect us to want total government control of our health care?
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