0: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
Which particular example are you thinking of?
I actually agree with it a lot by the way. I don't want to be hypocritical about the whole thing. But it seems that the fact that a lot of Uighurs make credible threats of violence, (indeed, are actively involved in ACTUAL mass violence), is often used as an excuse by the Chinese for everything they do. Similarly in the UK, some people make credible threats of violence, and the surveillance state kicks into high gear on everyone. And I'm not just picking on the UK and China, many nations use this excuse.
Look, I'm a "tough on terrorism" kind of guy too. Uighurs blowing things up, fine, crush them. With prejudice. You can't negotiate with terrorists. Period. I get that.
Why a dragnet on your entire population though? The issue is scope creep. It starts out with the UK wanting to find people making terroristic threats, and in 20 years the family court accessible text messages between you and your lover are being entered as evidence in your divorce hearing.
But the perpetrators of Rotherham went to prison; there have been several rigorous investigations into the child protection and police lack of action in the case; people resigned.
Most importantly: no-one has been arrested for trying to investigate Rotherham.
Please give an actual name of someone who faced police action for investigating rotherham.
He interfered with an ongoing criminal trial (putting that trial at risk of collapse) by threatening witnesses and calling the accused, before they had been convicted "muslim paedophiles". He was filming inside the courtroom and intimidating witnesses. He was asked to stop. He didn't stop, and he told police he was going to go to the homes of witnesses.
He was arrested and sentenced for that contempt of court. He was given a suspended sentence and clear instruction not to do it again.
He did it again.
Notice that Yaxley-Lennon has said nothing at all about his EDL colleague who was convicted of sexual offences against children. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/edl-english-defe...
You seem to think that Yaxley-Lennon would be free to speak in the US, but he's been forbidden to travel to the US by the US -- that's why in 2013 he tried to used a false passport to travel. https://news.sky.com/story/edl-leader-lennon-jailed-for-pass...
Here's a barrister's views: https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-...
Here's the sentencing remarks for the first convction (please read all of it. It's short and clear):
https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/committal-for-contempt...
Here's the warning the judge gave to him:
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Would you stand up, please. I take, as I hope has been made very clear by the comments that I have made, a very dim view indeed of your conduct which was in the face of repeated warnings that you should not do that which you did do. I accept what Mr. Kovalevsky tells me about the dangers that you might face were you to be sent into immediate custody. I have to say it is on a knife edge so far as I am concerned because a very large part of me thinks so what? you could be put into protective custody. But, my concern is to make sure that this trial keeps on track, and my concern is also to make sure that other courts with other trials in similar situations are kept on track without any danger of repetition of the kind of conduct that we have had visited upon us here. The sentence, therefore, that I pass upon you, taking into account all of those matters that have been placed before me and your admissions entered via Mr. Kovalevsky, is one of three months' imprisonment which will be suspended for a period of 18 months. That will be suspended. There will be no conditions that need to be attached to that suspended sentence, but you should be under no illusions that if you commit any further offence of any kind, and that would include, I would have thought a further contempt of court by similar actions, then that sentence of three months would be activated, and that would be on top of anything else that you were given by any other court. In short, Mr. Yaxley-Lennon, turn up at another court, refer to people as "Muslim paedophiles, Muslim rapists" and so on and so forth while trials are ongoing and before there has been a finding by a jury that that is what they are, and you will find yourself inside. Do you understand? Thank you very much.
Could you elaborate? Most of the people I know in tech are actually on the paranoid side.
The world is built with sadistic bricks. I don't think it is active malice that most people ignore them, I think they just cannot exist properly if they think about each and every one. So most people think about a few, if any. Maybe sometimes they eat a biological egg from a chicken that has twice the floor space of a regular chicken. Or they drink some fair trade coffee that was ostensibly not produced with modern slave labour.