Community | December 02, 2008 | 9 comments

Posting about police online to be illegal in UK

source: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413023.html?c=on

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Indymedia reports - The new Counter Terrorism Bill, currently in The Lords, contains an amendment to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This amendment will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit information about any police constable "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".

Furthermore, Schedule 7 of the Bill applies this amendment to internet service providers and web hosting services. This means they will have a legal duty to remove all sites perceived to fall under this offence, and has provisions for use at home and abroad.

It is unclear what information will be classed as “useful” to terrorists, but due to this ambiguous wording, the Bill has implications for bloggers, journalists, photographers, activists and anyone who values freedom of speech.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413023.html?c=on
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9 comments // Posting about police online to be illegal in UK

  • cynker
  • steadmani
  • researchALLwars
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      researchALLwars  

    • Jordan maxwell

      Eustace Mullins

      Micheal Ruppert

      Bill Cooper

      the Kay Griggs interview holy shit

      Graham Hancock

      David Icke- dismissing his work is a mistake

      John Pilger

      even Alex with his hilarious self

      study mind control- its the subconscious

      you will begin to see signs of the washington and holly wood connection.

      NONE of the people we think are in power have any idea what they are actually saying and/or doing.

      What are the origins of LSD and Exctacy?- the latter being widely used by the youth today

      How does all of the cocaine get into this country? or around the world for that matter…. Do they grow cocoa plants in africa? india?

      what is this bloodline that runs through heads of state, including Haile Selassie?

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari

      get to work

    • 3 years ago
  • cynker
  • Brockie
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      Brockie  

    • This will turn out badly. No matter how good the intentions of this law is. The police will abuse their power whenever they are able. This law amounts to an open inventation for censorship.

    • 3 years ago
  • netstorm2k8
  • steadmani
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      steadmani  

    • This is insidious for several reasons:

      1) "Terrorist" is itself a nebulous term, one which isn't firmly defined, and in practice a terrorist tends to be so because the government calls them that.
      2) You can be prosecuting for posting up information which 'could' be useful to somebody 'preparing' an act of terrorism. Not only is it frightening enough that simply being suspected of preparing to commit a crime is now imprisonable, but they want to imprison anyone who could potentially give this potential terrorist any potentially useful information.
      3) The language is, of course, ridiculously vague elsewhere. I'd be surprised if the Lords let this past without demanding a clarification of the criteria for 'useful materials'.

    • 3 years ago
  • purplefox
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      purplefox  

    • hmm, I can see how this bill makes some sense in protecting information about police officers and their operations, but the phrasing is worrying, since it just says information that can be deemed "useful" to terrorists, which of course could be interpreted to mean anything...

    • 3 years ago
  • cynker
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