UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments

Re:UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments by LinuxBender on Sunday April 06, 2025 @07:03AM (#43600525)

The acts make it illegal to cause distress by sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character” on an electronic communications network.

That is incredibly vague and highly subjective. One could flag half of the articles on Pubmed as "indecent". Perhaps the onus should be on the government to put an interface online that scores a string of text and gives a receipt that shows the government approves of said string of text.

    >Enter Text:  Stop walking around the neighborhood showing Uranus to everyone
    >Approved:    Verification Code >d33db33f42<

    >Enter Text:  "Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?"
    >Denied:      Cruel and unkind insult.

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Re:UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments by deepfriedchokes on Sunday April 06, 2025 @02:40PM (#43603817)

> That is incredibly vague and highly subjective.

That’s probably intentional.

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Re:UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments by sebazzz on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:09AM (#43607940)

But also not necessarily bad.

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Re:UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments by BarbaPeru on Monday April 07, 2025 @03:35AM (#43608852)

It is bad because can be weaponized and give the judge a too wide area for interpretation.

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Re:UK Police Arrest 30 People Per Day for Internet Comments by sebazzz on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:14AM (#43612463)

Almost any UK/US legislation is purposely written to be interpreted though

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