[ExI] UK now jailing people for unapproved online posts

[Adrian Tymes]

It looks like it's just Fox News, and reposts explicitly citing Fox, saying
this.  They've lied before, so if no one else is backing them up on this,
did it really happen?

Even if it did, it'd need to rise to the level of active plotting and
support - the kind of thing where if you were in one state and coordinating
riots in another within the US, the US would arrest you for that - to have
standing in the US system.  However, that appears to maybe be exactly what
this was allegedly about.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 10:02 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The UK is now jailing UK citizens for controversial online posts.
> And, apparently, the police think they can extradite people from other
> countries (like the US) for similar online comments.
>
> <
> https://www.foxnews.com/media/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-extradite-jail-us-citizens-over-social-media-posts-we-come-afte
> >
> Quotes:
> UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over
> online posts: 'We'll come after you'.
> 'Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law' the
> police commissioner warned.
> By Alexander Hall Fox News       Published August 9, 2024
>
> 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.
> -------------------------------
>
> It looks like Musk's silly idea of freedom of speech online is now to
> be crushed. Freedom of speech just gets people over-excited and causes
> trouble for the folk in charge.
>
> BillK
>
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