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New UK Laws Could Jail Trolls for ‘Psychological Harm’, Disinfo, Ratioing

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> The Defence Cultural Specialist Unit (DCSU) of the British army’s 77th Brigade [...] has also reportedly been monitoring anti-vax groups in order to counteract narratives that go against the government’s line on the Chinese coronavirus.

Saddest job on the planet? I guess some regard propagandists as useful...

> killing of Sir David Amess MP last month, Conservative MPs have been calling on the government to end online anonymity

He was killed by anonymous online comments? I don't know if that is a joke or if they are serious but it certainly isn't thinking about the victim and how such deeds can be minimized. Just a hint, curbing civil liberties doesn't really help against such deeds, regardless if motivated by Islamic terror or other groups. So you abuse the death of one of your colleagues as an opportunity to follow other aspirations. I don't envy Mr Amess about his friends...

Cultural revolution is coming. Be prepared. I guess people never learn and Blair (Arthur) is not a popular author in UK anymore.

Given that the kind of behaviours described are ones that our MPs engage in all the time, I’m predicting some incredibly partial application of said laws.

It says everything that the narrative in the U.K. for the last month is “How dare people keep on pointing out I voted to dump human excrement into rivers.”

That site is a news aggregator, original link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/01/twitter-trolls-f...

Well... now what?

Many say Breitbart is not a dependent new source, but is the content true or not?

A government decision to label dissidents as enemies of the state and creating new political prisoners.

"Ratioing" is a new one on me. From Googling:

A post being referred to as “ratioed” means that it has more replies than likes and is likely divisive, unpopular, or generally controversial.

Its when a reply gets more likes and retweets than the main post (tweet).

It’s amazing to see people want a downvote on Twitter so much that a fairly convoluted “virtual downvote” has emerged. I wonder if Twitter will ever implement a real downvote. I think it would disincentivize inflammatory posts (but inflammatory posts drive page views)

Count on the British to bring the prissy uptightness

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