[ExI] UK now jailing people for unapproved online posts

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 11:06 AM Tom Nowell via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Our courts have laws about what you can and cannot report, in order to
> maximise the chances of a fair trial, and I believe US courts also have
> restrictions. Mr Ten Names doesn't care about this, and is in trouble for
> it and acts surprised that free speech isn't an absolute right in the UK.
>

You are correct about the US courts.  We have had far too many who have
been pulling this sort of thing - including acting surprised (and then
some) - entirely within the US.  One particularly egregious case of recent
was Alex Jones, a "shock jock" who kept denying - on a broadcast platform
with a substantial audience - that the school shooting in Sandy Hook
Elementary in 2012 actually took place, to the point that his audience
began inflicting harm on the parents of the victims.  He has consistently
lost the resulting court cases, and tried to use his platform to assault
the plaintiffs (and beg his audience for money to cover his legal bills, in
a pattern copied by Donald Trump).


> We shall see just how severe the UK government gets when it feels public
> order is threatened over the next few weeks.
>

One might hope that Kamala Harris - a former prosecutor and current major
party candidate for President - will take notes.
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