Nanny-fascism because of crackdowns on racist riots?
> London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well.
> "We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News
> One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.
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You and I know the legal difference between posting “I disagree with the government” and “You should get a gun and shoot somebody”. One is protected free speech, the other is incitement of violence - which does not matter if you incite in person or on an online forum.
Don’t worry about the trolls and Kremlin-lovers, they’re a dime a dozen these days and not worth the hassle.
1. I'm a real American who is very easy to find. I've been on HN for a decade. I'm the easiest person on earth to find.
2. If you bothered to look up my other social media, you'd see that I'm vocally anti-Russia. If I was the US president, Ukraine would have aircraft carriers, F35s, and a couple thermonuclear warheads by now.
3. As an American, who likes American things like free speech and blowing up Russians, I can also notice and object when traditional bastions of liberty like the UK turn into fascist states who arrest people for posting on Facebook.
The world isn't simple, and everyone you disagree with isn't a paid troll. Engage with other opinions and you may learn something.
Aren't we fighting Russia in Ukraine to preserve these very rights? Yet peacetime countries seem to be willingly throwing them in the trash.