Chiling effect
'The bill, first drafted under former prime minister Theresa May in 2019, was revised this year to authorize imprisonment — up to two years — for anyone whose social media message could cause "psychological harm amounting to at least serious distress."'
'A particularly controversial aspect of the original bill was its aim to curb what it calls "legal but harmful" expression by netizens.'
How the heck does anyone not think that such a system:
- will lead to a massive chilling efefct on free speech in the UK
- be abused by the unscupulous to get the people that they don't like criminalised, possibly jailed
With our current hate crime and non-crime legistaltion coupled with the above, you have a pefect ability to arrest and criminalise anyone for anything they say, usually based on how someone else feels.
I think our politicians are living on another planet at this point - or just mailicious on a societal scale.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
