Pretense of freedom in UK gone. Post rap lyrics go to court.

[Judge]

This is one of the scariest things I have ever read. For all the "Trump is president the world will end" shit, this seems far more terrifying.

Cliffs: Teen girl posts lyrics to a rap song on social media. People get offended. Teen gets taken to court and given community service and a fine.
This is the most Orwellian thing I have ever seen in the West. This is the destruction of thought and art and all things individual.
This is why you don't want the tyrannical mother Government ruling over you.



The Liverpool Echo detailed the case:

Angela Conlan, prosecuting, told the court that the words were posted to the bio section of Russell’s Instagram account, and then reported to police last year.

The content was then passed to Constable Dominique Walker, who is based within a specialist police hate crime unit.

The court heard that Ms Walker was the sister of Anthony Walker, who was the victim of a notorious race hate murder on Merseyside.

PC Walker told the court that she found the words on Russell’s Instagram account grossly offensive.

She said: “As a black woman I found the words offensive and upsetting. The words are offensive to both black and white people.”

PC Walker also asked Carole Clarke, defending, not to use the word n**** in the court because she found it so offensive.

Ms Clarke argued that the meaning of the ‘n’ word had changed over time because it had been popularised by hugely successful and popular rap artists such as Jay-Z, Eminem and Kanye West.

The conviction comes under Section 127 of the 2003 Communications Act, which states:

127 Improper use of public electronic communications network
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he—

(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b) causes any such message or matter to be so sent.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—

(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,
(b) causes such a message to be sent; or
(c) persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.

 

[dontsnitch]

Again, don't take offense when none is intended. Victimhood culture is killing the liberal live-and-let-live mantra.

 

[hillelslovak87]

Again, don't take offense when none is intended. Victimhood culture is killing the liberal live-and-let-live mantra.

 

[bobgeese]

What an embarrassment Europe has become.

 

[Soul Crusher]

This is what creepy tyranny looks like.

Spoiler

 

[WhitebeltXL]

He ordered Russell to comply with a curfew order restricting her movements between 8pm and 8am for 8 weeks.

She was ordered to wear an electronic tag on her ankle during this period of time. Russell was also ordered to pay £500 toward costs and a £85 surcharge.

Curfew and electronic tag for an instagram post? What a waste of police time and funding.

 

[Hard To Tell]

And people still claim that political correctness, outrage culture, suppression of free speech and the march towards tyranny is just limited to college kids and a few academics and has no impact in the real world.

 

[Judge]

Curfew and electronic tag for an instagram post? What a waste of police time and funding.

In the words of the Mayor of London, you just have to learn to live with terrorist attacks. But posting rap lyrics on Instagram is too far.

If only we could trick all the grooming rape gangs over there into posting rap lyrics to get some level of justice.

And people still claim that political correctness, outrage culture, suppression of free speech and the march towards tyranny is just limited to college kids and a few academics and has no impact in the real world.

Makes Tipper Gore back in the 2 Live Crew days look like a Piker.


So, keeping score here.
In Canada if you don't call a person their preferred pronoun you can get fined and jailed.
In UK if you post rap lyrics you can get the same.

Hmmmmm.....

 

[Benjamin Burton]

what if.. hitler was right?

the queen and the illuminati have been waiting decades for this. as soon as they banned guns they knew they had your peasant asses.

 

[lifelessheap]

Didn't read. I assume the person getting fucked over is white and the 'offended' person is a Muslim or black.

Is normal.

I'm offended when Muslims hold signs in the streets about beheading people, but that speech seems protected for some reason. oh well. Get fucked Europe.

This is also coming to Canada. The US will be the last place with any shred of freedom. This is why we conservatives fight so hard against incremental erosions of the 2A.

 

[tonni]

This is the most Orwellian thing I have ever seen in the West.

Tone it down.

 

[Tiny]

This is delicious!

 

[sangreporsangre]

The lyrics, said to have come from a song by US rap artist Snap Dogg, were ‘kill a snitch n**** and rob a rich n****.’

First off, Snap Dogg, wtf?? Anyway, the very idea that criminal proceedings were filed over those lyrics being posted to Instagram is ridiculous.

Ms Clarke also pointed out that Russell had spelt the ‘n’ word ending in the letter a rather than er. She also quoted from the urban dictionary, which said that the word ending in the letter a meant a ‘black man wearing a gold chain.’

I'm not from the UK, but if I were I gotta think it would make my blood boil that tax dollars are spent on people debating shit like the above in a court of law. How freakin insane is this "justice" system that they have resources for bullshit like this?

He ordered Russell to comply with a curfew order restricting her movements between 8pm and 8am for 8 weeks.

She was ordered to wear an electronic tag on her ankle during this period of time. Russell was also ordered to pay £500 toward costs and a £85 surcharge.

THE FUCK???? The state will electronically monitor her movements to ensure he doesn't go outside after 8 pm because she posted some rap lyrics on social media while having white skin? I know that the term "Orwellian" gets thrown around way too much these days but this is mind-boggling that the government of a free country would engage in fuckin insanity like this.

Even without all the scandals for covering up grooming gangs this would be outrageous. As it is, it's nothing short of shameful. I believe tomorrow is the day that Count Dankula gets sentenced for his crime of uploading a video of a Nazi pug. WTF Britain....get your shit together.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

I was waiting for this one. It's watching a collapse in real time.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Fuck England

 

[TSO]

that the government of a free country would engage in fuckin insanity like this.

.

Ive pointed this out many times but here it goes again. There's only one country where the people are free, the USA. It's the only country where the people own the government whereas in all other countries the government owns its people.

People with guys are citizens. People without them are subjects.

This is why we will never give up our guns.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

If the song in question is available in the territory for download on itunes or viewing on youtube, then what?

 

[Liquid Smoke]

If the song in question is available in the territory for download on itunes or viewing on youtube, then what?

I guess they gotta go after Apple or Youtube then...

 

[snakedafunky]

I think the issue here lies with the person using public communications channels to spread that message.
She would be free to voice the same opinion but not using a public communications channels.
It's not really a matter of free speech but rather what channels you use to voice that free speech, in this case, it is illegal because it's a public channel from my understanding anyway.

But yeah you have to question if those people don't have anything better to do with their time.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

I guess they gotta go after Apple or Youtube then...

Sounds like deep pockets. Gotta be a way to up the fines.