(04-02-2024, 08:19 AM)BIAD Wrote:(04-02-2024, 07:58 AM)Bally002 Wrote: Hmm. Bout time we cut ties with Britain and Scotland before it's too late.
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I agree with you Bally, this law suggests a Tweet, a re-Tweet or even a discussion that is seen
as 'offensive' under this law -regardless of where in the world this occurs and seen by someone
in Scotland, can be held accountable under the heading of a 'non-hate crime'!!
Will such an 'offender' be extradited from their home country to be held accountable by the
Scottish law courts?!
It's very East-Germany -ish!!
That's becoming more and more prevalent in the Internet Age - jurisdictions trying to hold someone else in someone else's jurisdiction accountable for something someone in their jurisdiction read. New Zealand is bad for that, what with sending out "take-down" orders to people who can legitimately tell them to simply kiss their ass. California has tried it as well, and several other places - now Scotland, too?
It reminds me a bit of a Faltskog-ish individual trying th threaten us with "Interpol", as if Interpol had arrest powers here, or even any arrest powers anywhere. That didn't work out so well for them, now did it? Some folks just watch too much TV I think, and don't realize that some of the rest of us don't, and actually have an understanding of how the real world works.
My general response to them is "if you feel that strongly about it, come and get some". Belligerent folk, especially belligerent foreigners, can and will be met with a rough reception when getting belligerent against me on my own turf, and I can mete that out with impunity. We still have laws on the books here guaranteeing a right to self defense and against illegal detentions and false arrests.
Here's the deal: if you don't want someone reading something on YOUR turf, then block it and announce your totalitarian proclivities to the world in doing so. Don't come here and try telling me how to run my own house. That ain't gonna end well for the interloper.
This world could do with a good bit more of folks minding their own business instead of trying to mind everyone else's. There is no jurisdiction on this Earth that makes the rules that everyone else has to live by on their own patch. All they get to control is THEIR own patch, not ours too.
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