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British citizens are being arrested for exercising free speech in the United Kingdom.

#uk #cybersecurity #hacker #FreeSpeech

https://cnews.link/orwellianism-uk-free-speech-1/

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[โ€“] voracitude 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You know what bothers me about this site? No "about" page. Who the fuck is Jesse William McGraw? Aside from a hacker who, by his own admission, got caught, convicted, and sentenced to prison?

After a little digging I'm not sure "hacker" would be the right word: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/hacker-known-as-ghostexodus-sentenced-to-more-than-nine-years-in-federal-prison-7145501

Script kiddie, maybe. His opsec was non-existent; he posted his "hacks" to YouTube.

Secondly, free speech is regulated everywhere, and very much in the UK:

Article 10 is a qualified right. Accordingly, freedom of expression does not protect all statements, where the rights of the individual must be balanced against the public interest in permitting free speech. This means that the legislature and the courts can intervene to penalise or censor the use of language or conduct which crosses a culturally acceptable line.

(https://www.lawble.co.uk/freedom-of-speech/)

If that sounds nebulous, that's because it is. It's supposed to be able to catch problems in real time; we see what allowing stochastic terrorism has wrought in the US.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Leaving aside that people who trade security for liberty deserve neither because y'all are literally a bunch of peasants anyways so you might as well get security out of it:

How'd I know going in this Free Speech Martyr would be making racist threats?