UK government could imprison people for looking at terrorist content
New laws will be introduced that could see consumers of terrorist content imprisoned for up to 15 years. The same maximum sentence would face those who share information about police, soldiers or intelligence agencies with a view to organizing terrorist attacks.
These laws are offering particularly harsh sentences but in specific this is one of the first times where a law seeks to put people in prison for what they view. Is this an example of a thought crime where merely thinking about certain content could result in prison? Is 15 years in prison sensible for repeatedly visiting the wrong website? How can they even know whether or not the owner of the computer is the person who viewed the content?
I'm not entirely sure what this law is supposed to accomplish but maybe some UK citizens can tell me how they feel about it?
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This is frightening. We are on our way into the Police state.
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Now no one has the freedom to even think? This seems wrong . I feel like yes , in some ways , seeing has an influence on minds but only those who already want to act upon it . Why not just ban the videos instead of going this far
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Seems wrong or is wrong?
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Is wrong !
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One day we will be like 3 monkeys>
No see evil,
No listen evil,
No speak .
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in Indonesia there is no such law. I think such a law is very unreasonable. Because people are sometimes trapped by deliberately entering the territory of forbidden content (terrorist or otherwise) except for the creator itself, is entitled to be forbidden because terrorists are not very calm.
thanks for sharing @dana-edwards
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Well, UK becomes US, nothing but police country run by the same comunists and globalists who want to control us..... but people will soon wake up...
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So... how long before people start getting jailed for watching horror movies?
After all... one wouldn't want to be inconsistent...
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All such legislative 'ideas' typically create windows that allow essentially any dissenting voice to be silenced for many years - it is very easy to plant a fake history in someone's browser - the leaked snowden and wikileaks documents make this clear. The fact that this so easy and that this is known by those making the legislation is a major red flag that reveals their intent here.
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Bit by bit, the nanny state turns into a police state...
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From the country that has white vans travelling around the street scanning to check who has paid their TV license, nothing would surprise me.
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