Britain is crazy. I met some chaps once doing indi court reporting, since there is no more local news, and no one reporting on small courts. One day a pedophile was prosecuted for thousands of illegal photos. The criminal got a suspended sentence, so if he behaves for a year, he gets to skip jail. The indi reporter, remembering that behind those photos where real children being abused, saw red, and tweeted about how he would love to restore justice if he ever met the pedo in the street. The tweet earned him a few weeks in prison.
This is extremely common today.
A tragi-commic episode is the Tony The Tiger porno guy. A guy viewed a porno he received by email, I think, featuring a man in a tiger outfit (furries?). He was charged with some indecency crime. (
Sorry, Gwern, but your deepfake pedo porn idea would not work here, since it is a crime to even depict virtual acts which are banned under the decency law. You can't cosplay pedophilia or bestiality.)
Then there was the Scottish fella who was prosecuted for hate crime, after teaching his girlfriends pug to do a sieg hiel. The video, “M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi” went viral, and the boyfriend was charged and fined. I won't link it, in case it becomes a crime to share this stuff.
“My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is, and so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi.”
I only mentioned some of the most famous cases off the top of my head. There are hundreds more.
The problem is, for all the hate crimes like this that become famous, thousands more go unreported, and unpunished. Fortunately, the law society hopes to correct this, and is lobbying to remove the 'private dwelling' exception from hate speech laws. Making it a crime to mock goths and punks at the breakfast table. https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/04/stirring-up-divisions-in-priv...
This is extremely common today.
A tragi-commic episode is the Tony The Tiger porno guy. A guy viewed a porno he received by email, I think, featuring a man in a tiger outfit (furries?). He was charged with some indecency crime. ( Sorry, Gwern, but your deepfake pedo porn idea would not work here, since it is a crime to even depict virtual acts which are banned under the decency law. You can't cosplay pedophilia or bestiality.)
Then there was the Scottish fella who was prosecuted for hate crime, after teaching his girlfriends pug to do a sieg hiel. The video, “M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi” went viral, and the boyfriend was charged and fined. I won't link it, in case it becomes a crime to share this stuff. “My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is, and so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi.”
I only mentioned some of the most famous cases off the top of my head. There are hundreds more.
The problem is, for all the hate crimes like this that become famous, thousands more go unreported, and unpunished. Fortunately, the law society hopes to correct this, and is lobbying to remove the 'private dwelling' exception from hate speech laws. Making it a crime to mock goths and punks at the breakfast table. https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/04/stirring-up-divisions-in-priv...