People in the UK who post “false information” about vaccines online could face two years in prison under a new law.
Yes, really.
The Online Safety Bill, described as “the flagship legislation to combat abuse and hatred on the internet” has faced fierce criticism from civil liberties groups for its broad overreach.
The law would create a “knowingly false communication” offense which, according to the Times, “will criminalise those who send or post a message they know to be false with the intention to cause “emotional, psychological, or physical harm to the likely audience”. Government sources gave the example of antivaxers spreading false information that they know to be untrue.”
Given that authorities have deemed all kinds of information about the pandemic and vaccines “false” that later turned out to be true, this is a chilling prospect.
For example, claims that vaccines are not fully effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19 would have once been deemed “false,” but that position is now a proven fact.
The bill would also change the current stricter standard of “indecent” or “grossly offensive” content to the much broader definition of “harmful effect” when deciding if a post or a message is criminal.
This is more in line with UK hate speech laws that determine whether an act of hate speech or a “hate incident” has been committed not on the basis of whether or not it actually happened, but on the basis of the supposed victim feeling like they’ve been targeted.
“The new offenses will include so-called “pile-ons” where a number of individuals join others in sending harassing messages to a victim on social media,” reports the Times.
And if you think that will stop left-wing mobs who routinely form “pile-ons” against conservatives for expressing dissenting opinions, think again.
It will be selectively enforced against people who criticize or make fun of those deemed “oppressed minorities,” despite such groups having the full backing of the state and every cultural institution (the alphabet people).
The Online Harms Bill is being amplified with the help of relentless propaganda about black football players being abused online, despite the fact that most of the abuse originates abroad, mainly from Middle Eastern countries.
Well, we can now count the entire UK and all the ‘Queen’s holdings’ as firmly in a WWII fascist mode supporting a criminal totalitarian cartel. The UK public is being forced to go to war, literally in the streets. If they do not Hitler’s push to silence anyone and everyone has been completed by their own government’s hand. Subjects! You will be living in Orwell’s 1984 England if you allow such a law to go into effect.
The ‘harmful effect’ the UK government really is terrified of the harm which would accrue to their official narrative if new and opposing facts were to be made public. The new law is not to protect individuals, it’s to protect the cowards, liars and tyrants currently masquerading as leaders and experts. The fact that the majority of Labour and Conservative politicians have passed this bill is a clear indicator of the extent to which British politics has been given over to the British version of the Swamp.
Oh yeah.. oppress those telling the actual truth.
The virtues of being ruled by the satanic pedo queen and pedo pope.