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CPS to crack down on social media hate crime, says Alison Saunders

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[FONT=&quot]Prosecutors will be ordered to treat online hate crime as seriously as offences carried out face to face in plans announced by the director of public prosecutions.

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[FONT=&quot]Alison Saunders said the Crown Prosecution Service will seek stiffer penalties for abuse on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms.

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/21/cps-to-crack-down-on-social-media-hate-says-alison-saunders

Could something like this be coming to America? And if so, how will it manifest itself?

PJ Media reports:

[FONT=&quot]Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document "hate crimes and events" in America. They've partnered with liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to make information about "hate events" easily accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.

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https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/08/19/propublica-working-google-document-hate-threatens-conservative-bloggers/

This is troubling.....
 
Oooooh goody! There's a few dozen posters on here that could use some prison sentences. :lamo
 
"Hate speech" is Constitutionally protected so I don't think we'll see people being jailed simply for saying supposedly hateful things - except possibly in places where local legislators and LE haven't bothered to understand the Constitution they are sworn to defend.

I'm concerned about what Google is doing as well. For better or worse the Internet is the new "public square" and it's deeply troubling to me that private companies can control speech in a public arena. I have no idea yet how we might deal with that but it's going to become a problem.

As to the possibility of being used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the "progessive orthodoxy" I'd simply remind our progressive friends what can be used to ferret out people who are against the progress agenda can also be used to ferret out those who are for the progressive agenda.
 
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Could something like this be coming to America? And if so, how will it manifest itself?

PJ Media reports:



This is troubling.....

This will be how Google will get competition, of the variety that doesn't care what you say on the inter-webs. Monopolies don't last forever.
 
Could something like this be coming to America? And if so, how will it manifest itself?

PJ Media reports:



This is troubling.....

So in the UK just saying something can be a hate crime?
 
Sounds like that is the road being traveled does it not?

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not sure what you mean. did you mean like that is how things are going these days or?
 
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