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Of course, that's the whole point. Gotta prevent another Belfast.

Except this doesn't, because most of the rioters are adults.

In many of the previous riot/anti-immigrant violence cases, those arrested have substantial criminal records, which tends to lead to the "why is this person not in prison already?" discourse.

(look at how long the court system queues are some time. It can be years from offence to conviction!)

Hate speech laws are already in place. All that's needed now is for everyone to doxx themselves for the speech-to-arrest pipeline to work smoothly.

Quite a lot of people seem to publish hate speech under their own names and newspaper bylines.

Pop quiz: which British journalist was cited as inspiration in the manifesto of Anders Breivik?

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