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by briandear 500 days ago
Wait. The Tories aren’t in power yet you want to attribute this to “Tory-lite?” It’s the Labour Party that is in charge, so why not put the blame on the actual perpetrators? Is it because you don’t want Labour getting blamed? I am confused. The Labour Party is the one jailing people for speech, so it follows that they would want backdoors into iCloud so they can better investigate ThoughtCrime.

The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson (appointed by the Labour Attorney General), warned against "publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred. So, if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you're committing that offense [incitement to racial hatred]."

He added further, "We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth."

This isn’t “Tory-lite,” this is Labour.

Sources: https://freespeechunion.org/labours-war-on-free-speech/

https://x.com/skynews/status/1821178852397477984?s=46
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madeofpalk 500 days ago
Parent seems to be attempting to discredit, not protect, Labour by calling them "Tory-lite".
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maeil 500 days ago
I'm very surprised that I got as many as three replies by people who interpred my comment this way! You got it right indeed.

I'm a bit confused though, surely if I call someone "Hitler-lite" this couldn't possibly be inteprered as something positive, haha. Maybe it's just tribalist reflexes, or maybe I did word things strangely.

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tim333 500 days ago
This stuff started from the Online Safety Act 2023 passed under Rishi Sunak's Tory government.

For some reason Americans, including Musk, go all partisan and feel the need to blame speech restriction on the lefty party but it's not what happened.

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robertlagrant 500 days ago
No, it started with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), passed under Tony Blair's Labour government.

I'll skip the same extreme partisan rant, but replacing Musk with Soros or whoever.

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