Re: [OT] Anatomy of a "non crime hate incident"

On Dec 5, 2024 at 1:26:49 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

I recently posted about the existence of "non-crime hate incidents" as a
new class of offence in Britain and got some fairly perplexed reactions,
especially when I mentioned that such offences could make you eligible
for significant jail time.
 
I just noticed this video which does a deep dive into one such
"non-crime hate incident", this one being a journalist's tweet. It has
made the headlines in Britain and brought the police into even greater
disrepute than they already had.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiTv1duFKo [1 hour, 15 minutes]
 
Along the way, the journalist shares how these offences first came into
existence and how even the new Labour government, which clearly supports
this sort of thinking, is distancing itself from the idea as the
reaction to this incident circulates.

Not only does the UK have non-criminal crimes, but they also have specific
category of speech that can be censored even though it's legal under British
law. It's called "legal but harmful content" (also sometimes referred to as
"lawful but awful") where the government basically admits the speech in
question is legal under British law but nevertheless thinks it causes some
amorphous undefined 'harm' and so may be legally censored.

Being a lawyer in the the UK must be like Alice finding herself in Wonderland
where everything's a contradiction.