It's only been a few hours but already things have changed so much it'll need a new post rather than add three more ETA's and have this go potentially unnoticed in the original post.
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The current director of public prosecutions (Starmer's old job) is considering charging anyone involved under terror offences which could dramatically increase the prison terms for those involved.
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Extradition proceedings are being sought for those posting on social media from outside the UK. Predominantly focused on Tommy Robinson but could also be made against Elon Musk after he made several tweets critical of the UK Government (https://archive.ph/OjJ5s). This is in addition to earlier demands by the Government to boycott advertiser's and bring forward enforcement of ruinous fines to websites that allow such content to be published.
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A man has been charged with content posted online deemed "hatred" by the local police. The proceedings are now subject to a secret court where nothing about the case will be made public beside the sentence and no-one is to comment, speculate or discuss it.
Hopefully this will inform those overseas as to the current sit rep with the UK and the direction of travel the country is going.
I'm not so confident about this as I once was.
Well, it would be illegal by any common sense interpretation of the laws. But, it would be done anyway, and then the courts would say no one has standing to challenge it, or come up with an incredibly non common sense way to suggest it could be legal, or, if unable to do that, at least stretch out calling it illegal for about three to five years. At which point they’d go “oops, our bad, I promise we won’t do it again…” and no one involved would face real consequences.