1984 Today: View the Wrong Website, Get 15 Years in Prison

[rangerrebew]

Monday, 09 October 2017
1984 Today: View the Wrong Website, Get 15 Years in Prison
Written by  Selwyn Duke


Read the wrong website — go to prison for 15 years. This Orwellian idea will apparently become reality under a proposed United Kingdom measure targeting people who repeatedly view not just jihadist Internet material, but also so-called “far-right propaganda.”

The new measure was announced by Britain’s home secretary, Amber Rudd. As The Guardian reported Monday, “‘I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadist websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law,’ said Rudd. ‘There is currently a gap in the law around material [that] is viewed or streamed from the internet without being permanently downloaded.’”

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/27080-1984-today-view-the-wrong-website-get-15-years-in-prison

[Smokin Joe]

Some very good points made in the article, well worth reading. Thanks for posting it!

[DB]

If you can't burn/ban the book, punish the reader to achieve the same result...

[Smokin Joe]

If you can't burn/ban the book, punish the reader to achieve the same result...

True enough, but while some groups, (in this case in England) supporting Sharia and jihad are pretty well defined, they are trying to ban "Right Wing" websites as well. That gets a lot more vague when it comes to who considers what to be 'too radically' "Right Wing".

Considering in the US the SPLC had defined some mainstream conservative groups as Far Right Hate Groups, it becomes a matter of perspective, and not a well defined ideological limit. The very vagueness and subjective nature of what constitutes a "Right Wing" site and the attempt to find moral equivalency between that and a site promoting violent jihad is a stunning piece of Liberal overreach.