Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law
Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law
First minister calls for end to vexatious reports after far-right agitators attempt to ‘overwhelm’ official systems
First minister calls for end to vexatious reports after far-right agitators attempt to ‘overwhelm’ official systems
Neo-Nazi and far-right agitators are exploiting Scotland’s new hate crime law to make vexatious complaints en masse in an attempt to “overwhelm” police systems.
A prominent figure in England’s white nationalist movement is among those urging followers to spam Police Scotland with anonymous online reports, the *Observer *has found.
The leader of a far-right group – one of several fringe organisations being assessed by the UK government under its new extremism definition – promoted a private channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram that includes a “call to action” urging members to “mass report”.
Posts in the channel instruct members to log cases of supposed “anti-white” hate, which they say includes a statement on the police force’s website that “young men aged 18-30 are most likely to commit hate crime”.
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I agree ACAB, that’s why anonymous complaints are a good thing. That way the cops can’t easily retaliate on you if you report a neo-nazi threat you saw on Facebook and it turns out to be their buddy
What is this scenario are you creating in your head? Since when do police do anything about Facebook?
Yeah man I think police are on the whole stupid bastards but I still think if you reported seeing a post from a neo nazi saying he’s going to burn down the local gay bar on Facebook they’d still look into it
Link to me this happening once in the US.
Once… what is happening in this US?
Are you not aware that people are punished / investigated for social media postings every single day? This is really not hidden news man lol
Then it should be easy for you to find me one instance of the police responding to an post on facebook in the US.
Ok. Sure.
https://criminaldefensetucson.com/people-whose-social-media-posts-got-them-arrested/
I found that in about thirty seconds of googling.
Are you like… do you not read the news much man…? This is like if you got confused because you had never heard of a shooting taking place at a school before
Robert Card, who was wanted in connection with the Oct. 25 shootings at a bowling alley and bar that killed 18 people and wounded 13, was found dead Oct. 27.
Link number 2 talks about Twitter.
Link 3 doesn't mention any details at all.
You're stretching. Just admit you're wrong.
I’m not kidding dude you might be genuinely schizophrenic.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-comments-arrest-prosecution
https://www.businessinsider.com/people-arrested-for-facebook-posts-2013-7?amp