Labor Party political adviser Ricky Jones spoke at a “Mitania for Peace” on Wednesday and proceeded to call for the killing of “far-right rioters”.
This man should be arrested. If not, we know there is a two-tiered police force. @metpoliceuk pic.twitter.com/PR50gGK2zJ
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) August 8, 2024
Mr. Jones was indeed suspended by the Labor Party, but other speakers at the “Mitania for Peace” who also called for violence against the right drew laughter and applause from the crowd.
It is not clear how much of the unrest in Britain last week was carried out by the “right” and how much was led by other parties, including Muslim mobs. By midweek, the authorities were predicting “hundreds of riots”. Either they were misinformed or it was a hoax. Most of the “riots” turned out to be small groups of angry locals upset by police inaction. There were so many angry Muslims confronting them, protesting the misinformation linking their community to the murders of children attending a dance class.
It will soon be illegal to express anti-immigration views in Britain. There have already been several arrests of people opposing online migration.
Anil Kanti “Neil” Basu, who served as the top counter-terrorism police officer, said the anti-migration riots should be treated as “terrorism”.
“I think we've seen serious acts of violence designed to strike terror into a part of our community,” he said he said the bbc
And Prime Minister Keir Starmer made an explicit threat that the era of free speech in England was coming to an end. the guardian reports that he said “we're going to have to look more broadly at social media after this upheaval.” Starmer said there would be “sentence for online behavior” in court today and also said “if you are directly involved or remotely involved, you are guilty and you will be brought to justice”.
Critics say the government's new slogan “think before your message” is a little too Orwellian for comfort, but some have already been caught in that web. Cheshire Police boasted on Thursday evening that they had arrested a woman “in connection with an inaccurate social media post”, claiming “a woman in connection with a social media post containing inaccurate information about the identity of the attacker in the Southport murders.”
The leader of civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, Silkie Carlo, expressed alarm at the police's language, saying their press release was “so poorly written”, generously glossing over the possibility which had to be deliberately vague. Offering his interpretation of the law, Carlo stated that it is not actually a crime to accidentally post inaccurate information on social media unless it was intentionally racially hateful or deliberately posting false information with the intent to cause a non-trivial damage.
Reuters reports that YouGov “published a survey of more than 2,000 adults, which found that two-thirds (66%) believe social media companies should be held accountable for posts that incite criminal behaviour.”
Additionally, “an additional 70% of respondents said social media companies were not regulated enough, and 71% said they did not do enough to counter misinformation while the unrest was ongoing.”
There won't be much of an outcry if British people's liberties are taken away. That's because they won't miss what they never had. There is no “freedom of speech” per se in Britain. This is demonstrated by the new online speech law that was supposed to come into force until the beginning of next year.
The “Online Safety Act” frames free speech as a “security” issue. It's a poor disguise for controlling people's thoughts and speech.
The legislation, which was approved by parliament in September 2023 after years of political wrangling, imposes obligations on platforms that carry user-to-user communications (such as social media platforms, messaging apps, etc.) to remove illegal content and protect its users from other harms such as hate speech, with penalties of up to 10% of annual global turnover for non-compliance.
“In relation to social media and online, the first thing I would say is that this is not a law-free zone, and I think that's clear from the prosecutions and the sentences,” Starmer said, stressing that those who encourage online hate are already facing consequences as the Crown Prosecution Service reports the first sentences associated with hate speech publications linked to violent disorder.
But Starmer added: “I agree that we will need to look more broadly at social media in the wake of this upheaval, but the focus at the moment has to be on dealing with the upheaval and making sure our communities are safe and secure.”
As in North Korea and Communist China. The sun set on the British Empire many years ago. Now, the light of freedom that lit the fire of the revolution for freedom in the US and elsewhere has gone out.
Say goodnight to all that.
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