People who repeatedly view terrorist content online could face up to 15 years behind bars in a move designed to tighten the laws tackling radicalisation the home secretary, Amber Rudd, is to announce on Tuesday.
A new maximum penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment will also apply to terrorists who publish information about members of the armed forces, police and intelligence services for the purposes of preparing acts of terrorism.
The tightening of the law around viewing terrorist material is part of a review of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy following the increasing frequency of terrorist attacks in Britain this year.
“I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law,” said Rudd. “There is currently a gap in the law around material [that] is viewed or streamed from the internet without being permanently downloaded.
“This is an increasingly common means by which material is accessed online for criminal purposes and is a particularly prevalent means of viewing extremist material such as videos and web pages,” added the home secretary.
The slippery slope on this one has so much potential for become a huge issue for any kind of dissident. You realise this could mean looking up, for example, a Molotov cocktail manual. Similarly, its only a matter of time before the liberals say the far left should be treated the same
Cameron Thomas
Do you ever stop being terrible?
Alexander Reyes
Fuck those frozen peaches. The government should have the power to lock up anyone who seems like a threat. I'm pretty sure they'll only use that power against the alt right.
Bentley Barnes
The liberals are rapidly approaching political irrelevancy in this country. All they're doing is impotently ranting in the graun and Indy BTL and no party is listening to them.
Easton Thomas
Guns are far-right, so if you view pro-gun material you should be locked up for 15 years.
Jonathan King
What kind of nonsense is this? You really want to enhance the power of the capitalist state to crush dissent as a commie of any snowflake variety?
Cooper Ross
How long before it becomes "far-left" too though?
Owen Harris
exactly this was a better example than mine
Adrian Smith
Says increasingly nervous establishment, they too, know a crisis is coming and fascism is the only way they know how to keep in power after it
You are one of them, you braindead retard, that pol hates you doesn't mean leftypol has to accept a enthnostate lunatic like you. Kill yourself
The article says it perfectly, left wing content is also a target
Don't forget some lefty org are oficially terrorists, probably antifa in the whole Europe in a couple years.
Logan Nguyen
Says increasingly nervous establishment, they too, know a crisis is coming and fascism is the only way they know how to keep in power after it
You are one of them, you braindead retard, that pol hates you doesn't mean leftypol has to accept a enthnostate lunatic like you. Kill yourself
The article says it perfectly, left wing content is also a target
Don't forget some lefty org are oficially terrorists, probably antifa in the whole Europe in a couple years.>>2131020
Parker Flores
Cos they've all become socially liberal Tories. This is the section of the population I talk about when I refer to liberals. I mean, even based Corbs is also a liberal.
Parker Russell
It was sarcasm meant to parody some real comments I've seen here. The last sentence should have given it away.
Nathan Robinson
Holy shit, that's a slippery slope. I've watched a fucktonne of jihadi videos and alt-right propaganda pieces just to get a feel for what they think. What are the chances of getting caught up in an anti-terrorist sting operation when you're just tryna debate some people on the internet? What if Holla Forums gets put on the naughty list for websites?
Evan Jenkins
and also This is literally what murderers get here. Tit for tat gang murders, cold blooded ones will get you 25, a grisly one life might mean life maybe. Its a fucking brutal sentence for just viewing some content. I probably count as having viewed terrorist content, I've watched a bunch of Nazi and ISIS stuff, just for curiosity but I've watched it repeatedly when I've shown it to people and stuff.
Jack Rivera
The Tories are facing an extinction event. Corbyn and his followers don't want people fucking around with the internet because they know it's a good place to peddle propaganda and recruit.
Andrew Carter
AFROPLASM GANG UNITE
Grayson King
So you admit you're an armchair activist who won't do anything more meaningful than shitposting on twitter? I mean, I don't hold it against you. It's just more evidence that a revolution is never going to happen and we might as well all give up.
Chase Sanders
GANG IN THIS BIH
Christian Morales
Why not both?
Charles Kelly
REPORTING FOR DUTY
Carter Nguyen
GANG
David Murphy
I hope you drown in the Thames. Rest of the gang is okay though.
Christian Cox
YOU MESS WITH ONE OF US YOU MESS WITH ALL OF US.
Carter Gomez
I propose the board operator change 'Anonymous' to 'Afroplasm'.
If you're reading this, please do this thing.
Aaron Rodriguez
We Metal Gear Solid 2 Now
Julian Robinson
8ch = Far right propoganda as far as these chucklefucks are concerned. And as with all legislation, the primary goal is setting up the legal framework, after that the actual "crime" can become anything with very little effort, or the original definition can be fuzzy enough to allow practically anything.
Jordan Brown
Evidently the BO is about as good at detecting sarcasm as he is at creating a decent place for leftist discussion.
Dominic Morgan
When shit gets real we'll all move to TOR anyway, right?
Logan Young
well this definitely won't be open to abuse, there's no way they'll class wikileaks or other whistlebolwers as terrists, or spam sites they don't like with nazi pepes
Logan Roberts
not sure if fud but aren't all the exit nodes or whatever they are called monitored by the feds?
Jace Baker
We obviously can't know to what extent Tor is compromised, but it certainly offers some level of protection. If they'd completely broken it they wouldn't be relying on javascript exploits to catch people.
Jack Jenkins
This.
Justin Foster
It's funny, free market capitalists and state capitalists sound pretty similar.
Not only that, but the system is designed as such that merely controlling any one node doesn't compromise it. You can see what people are looking at if you control the exit nodes, but there are still multiple hops in between that just bounce encrypted information around.
Joshua Johnson
Now THAT is comedy.
Grayson Powell
Lets face it, none of us are good at detecting sarcasm.
Angel Collins
Barrel BOmber strikes again.
Blake Price
Hahaha! Good one.
Christopher Evans
Might as well copypaste myself from a different thread
Reminder that no one cried more for "moderation" of online expression than SJWs, and they had the balls to act shocked when leftist sites were hit too. The EFF did the same shit too, Doctorow cried like a bitch at Theresa May's internet censorship plan and didn't see the irony. They'll no doubt ignore this while it's the right getting v&ed but will cry again when their Twitter buddies start getting v&ed too. Liberals never learn.
Connor King
The UK literally sounds like the worst place on earth, every time I hear something from there its always bad.
Tyler Bailey
I don't get it
Liam Lopez
Mapleland and Burgerstan are still worse somehow
Lucas Gutierrez
SUP NIGGA
Robert Morris
UK does it again. 15 fucking years for recklessly viewing word sequences suspected to be too dank and epin for plebs to trust themselves with.
This is what the state actually believes…
also lel
Hudson Wilson
...
Dylan Reed
I wonder what they'll be hungering for?
Wyatt Lopez
Tor hidden service traffic never passes an exit node only clearweb traffic that you access via Tor. Tor hidden service traffic is end to end encrypted and both ends are pseudo-anonymous.
Xavier Gonzalez
Could the UK get anymore lame?
Brayden Baker
...
Noah Turner
They are the self-appointed elite. Philosopher kangz. Socialism for the rich, serfdom for the rest.
Jaxon Rogers
me_irl
Ryan Martinez
despite the obvious sarcasm here, they're partially correct. locking up any potential threats is a good idea, provided the radical left has power.
Nathan Fisher
Funnily enough, SJWs actually are in control of /r/me_irl
