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"This summer we saw the beautiful game marred by disgraceful racism from online trolls, who hid behind their keyboards and abused our footballers," Patel was quoted as saying by British media.
"Those responsible for appalling racist abuse online must be punished. The changes to the law I am announcing will make sure they are banned from attending football matches."
The new law will be brought forward early in the new year, British media reported, in the form of an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
Well, it’s cause it’s entertainment, they are freer to impose this, as ban doesn’t impact their ability to live :shrug-outta-hecks:
Funny that conservatives are doing it tho
They're doing it because they want to use it as a stepping stone for authoritarian crackdowns on online speech. It will provide the initial infrastructure at a smaller scale and is ultimately not something the left is against so it's a good starting point.
The eventual endpoint is that you get a record and put on a database when you call your MP a fucking shit for the latest ghoulish thing over twitter.
They want to create a chilling effect in the online space that stops the left so effectively weaponising it among young people. We have been winning in the online space in the UK for a long ass time and they'll seek to turn that around by policing us for being offensive. They will eventually start enforcing Section 5 of Thatcher's Public Order act in the digital space.
Eh, online is good for sharing ideas, any actionable call to actions already are monitored/ fedposting, so it’s chilly already I would say, the rest is done irl
Sure but if parts of the public order act were enforced in the digital space things like guillotine memes, crabs and celebrating the fact Thatcher is very much dead might become off the table as all of them are very obviously going to cause offence to someone.