UK: Longer jail terms for viewing terror content online

[TomSea]

Longer jail terms for viewing terror content online

People who repeatedly view terrorist content online will face up to 15 years in prison, the home secretary is to tell the Conservative Party conference.

Amber Rudd will set out her intention to change the law to increase the maximum penalty from 10 years.

The offence of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist will also apply to material viewed repeatedly or streamed online.

Currently it applies only to material that is downloaded and stored.

Read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620

[DB]

Very dangerous territory.

On average the UK only puts someone in prison 17 years for murder...

[TomSea]

 Yes, this topic came up before....upon what we can see online. I guess, I'm weak on that civil liberty.  I'd probably need to see what it really says before jumping to conclusions. And in the end, it might be a band aid fix.

[kevindavis007]

Bad idea.

[TomSea]

Google and maybe youtube if applicable are not doing their job in intercepting this.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4598205/extremists-who-who-watch-streamed-terror-content-on-the-web-face-15-years-in-prison-in-fresh-crackdown-by-amber-rudd/

What's next? Defending kiddie porn as free speech?

[kevindavis007]

Google and maybe youtube if applicable are not doing their job in intercepting this.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4598205/extremists-who-who-watch-streamed-terror-content-on-the-web-face-15-years-in-prison-in-fresh-crackdown-by-amber-rudd/

What's next? Defending kiddie porn as free speech?

No, I just don't want the Government to monitor what I view on the Internet. Can you imagine the Democrats with this power?