Posted on 08/16/2016 6:54:05 AM PDT by simpson96
The office of London’s first Muslim mayor has secured millions of pounds to fund a police “online hate crime hub” to work in “partnership with social media providers” to criminalise “trolls” who “target… individuals and communities.”
The London mayor’s office for policing and crime (Mopac) will spend £1,730,726 of taxpayer’s money policing speech online after applying for a huge grant from the Home Office Police Innovation Fund (PIF), it was announced in a statement.
“The purpose of this programme is to strengthen the police and community response to this growing crime type” is was announced, and will “involv[e] a dedicated police team” backed by “volunteers”.
Mopac, to whom the Met answers to, has advertised a vacancy for a civilian programme manager, with a salary of £52,455, to support the five other police employees.
The measures will be “delivered in partnership with social media providers” who along with “specialist officers” will be “filtering and identification of online hate crimes” and “identifying the location of the crime and allocating to the appropriate force…”
In May this year, the EU announced that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft had “committed” to working more closely with them and national governments and “their law enforcement agencies” to help “criminalise” perceived “illegal hate speech” online.
London’s Metropolitan police force said they welcomed the extra workload and wished to encourage offended people to report perceived hate crimes in ever increasing numbers.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Say anything other than the highest praise for Muslims and the Koran and off to jail you go.
the EU announced that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft had “committed” to working more closely with them and national governments and “their law enforcement agencies” to help “criminalise” perceived “illegal hate speech” online.
Should not this Single Act alone preclude them from being Allowed to do Business in America??
Just the beginning of more repression to come.
The people of London deserve the government they voted for.
Lol. This is a great idea. I can imagine the fines showing up in people’s mail boxes already. It would work best if they could just auto draft the bank accounts for infractions.
Yet another example of where today's reality is even more bizarre than yesterday's satire.
(From the article.)
“Pure rants, very childish [people online] are increasingly criminalised, and as a result of that the police is becoming more and more involved in controlling our morality”, explained Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
“[The police are] almost playing the role of a moral police. And instead of dealing with real crime in the offline world, [the police] find its very convenient to ‘send the message’ in the online world because it’s a relatively easy thing to do”, he said.
Adding: “And what I’m really worried about, is that the whole freedom of speech becomes compromised whenever people have to think twice about what they say”.
(...)
Will be they be banning Free Republic ?????
How will they fine people who don’t reside in Londonistan? What if you work in London and write your ‘objectionable’ comments from your home outside the city boundaries?
This whole thing is insane and unworkable, and probably illegal. But of course that never stops the left from pursuing their ideological jihads.
All control of European speech is Soros related.
(41 percent surveyed want the same here.)
Pat Condell | Goodbye To The First Amendment
https://youtu.be/ozfaLzjjZyE
Following the sick lead of Germany, where police are far more concerned to prosecute citizens for un-PC remarks about Muslims than to protect the basic physical security and survival of all.
Stasi
Conservatives should start denouncing liberals they know to the London Stasi for hate talk. Show them what the actual outcome is of such policies since they are too stupid to figure it out for themselves .... or to read a history book.
Well they have to start by banning the Koran and associated texts, because they propagate hatred and violence against unbelievers, heretics, Jews, Christians, etc.
Corrected headline:
MUSLIM London Mayor to prosecute thought crimes.
Criminalizing free speech, censorship, thought crimes, book burning these are the favorite tools of the new fascist liberal and the Islamists.
Guess what, Londoners, only white Christians will be charged with hate crimes. Hope you’re happy with you votes.
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