Some UK residents risk being thrown in jail for sharing footage of the riots going on over there. Here's a bright idea. How about locking up the people rioting and not the people posting on social media. Another idea is to see WHY people are rioting and get rid of the CAUSE. Stand up for your locals and not for the people infiltrating a country and ruining it. It sounds like the UK is standing on the wrong side of history if you asked me. Protect YOUR people first, not the people showing up and causing problems. The Verge reported on this, saying:
The UK communications regulator Ofcom has raised concerns regarding social media being used to incite violence amid far-right riots across the country. In an open letter, Ofcom’s online safety director, Gill Whitehead, urged online platforms to tackle the potential spread of harmful materials related to the ongoing discord, highlighting its existing powers over video sharing platforms and its upcoming enforcement of the broader Online Safety Act.
Ofcom is specifically encouraging platforms to address content that depicts “hatred and disorder” and promotes violence or disinformation. The regulator’s existing powers allow it to “suspend or restrict” video sharing platforms that fail to protect the public from “harmful material” — potentially including inflammatory and often unverified videos that purport to show violence from immigrant communities, which have proliferated online. These rules don’t currently extend to social media companies in general, but the Online Safety Act is likely to grant Ofcom more power when it comes into force sometime between late 2024 and early 2025.
